Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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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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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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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 tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don’t pay attention ’cause it probably has floated into somebody else’s head.
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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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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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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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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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