I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSBeware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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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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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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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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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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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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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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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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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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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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