There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSBeware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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The music is in minors.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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