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Life for my child is simple, and is good.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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Hand Lights Love Touch Yourself
When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
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Blue Body Himself Love Man Rich Right Sweet Water World
A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
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Education Enough Inspirational Possible Writing
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Love Myself See Sight
We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
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Cool Death Reality Sing
This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Live Noise Urgent World Yourself
Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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Battle End Inspirational Live Song Win
As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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Food Growth Old Yourself
What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Life Myself Philosophy Unknown
When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
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Minority People Reference Worth Yourself
Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Education Important Patience Reading Slow
I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
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Challenge Enjoyment Experience Feeling Publish Writing
The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the ’60s: Independent fire!
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Fire Flower Independent Language Poet Sweet
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Black White
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Chocolate Preference Truth
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Art Material Translation World
I don’t like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
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Black Existence Ideas Myself Race
Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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Achievement Beginning Early Fascinate Language Life Play Wonder Word
Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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Air Book Flame Flower Medicine
Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Be Yourself Imitation Important Poet Yourself
Writing is a delicious agony.
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Delicious One Liner Pain Poet Writing
Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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Goodness Health Inheritance Progress World
She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Deep Hereslf Learning Love Moments
Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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Children Death Forget Remember Yourself
No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Man Patience Poet Wait Word Writing
When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
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Black Color Human Room Understand White
Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Art Easy Home Hurt Stay

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