It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWe are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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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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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.
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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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The music is in minors.
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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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