I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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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Writing is a delicious agony.
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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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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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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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The poetry is myself.
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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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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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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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I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don’t pay attention ’cause it probably has floated into somebody else’s head.
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