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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Each body has its art.
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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the ’60s: Independent fire!
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And if sun comes how shall we greet him? shall we not dread him, shall we not fear him after so lengthy a session with shade?
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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 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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I don’t like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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