Life for my child is simple, and is good.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWhen 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.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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What I’m fighting for now in my work… for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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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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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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