Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWriting is a delicious agony.
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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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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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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Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.
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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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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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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 am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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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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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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