Gwendolyn Brooks quotes

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The intellectual damn
Will nurse your half-hurt. Quickly you are well.
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.
I've stayed in the front yard all my life.
I want a peek at the back
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Abortions will not let you forget.
You remember the children you got that you did not get,
But could a dream send up through onion fumes
Its white and violet, fight with fried potatoes
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I have eased
My dim dears at the breasts they could never suck.
Whether to dry
In humming pallor or to leap and die.
I am cold in this cold house this house
Whose washed echoes are tremulous down lost halls.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
My daughters and sons have put me away with marbles and dolls,
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Omega ran to witness him; beseeched;
Brought caution and carnality and cash.
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