Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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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And if sun comes how shall we greet him? shall we not dread him, shall we not fear him after so lengthy a session with shade?
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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It is brave to be involved.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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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