Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSThere are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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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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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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The poetry is myself.
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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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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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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