We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSThe music is in minors.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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 don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
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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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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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 know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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It is brave to be involved.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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