We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSNo man can give me any word but Wait.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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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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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the ’60s: Independent fire!
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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The music is in minors.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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