Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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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Each body has its art.
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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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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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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 swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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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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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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