Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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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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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
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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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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It is brave to be involved.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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The poetry is myself.
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We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
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Each body has its art.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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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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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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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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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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