We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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The music is in minors.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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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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I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.
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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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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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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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Each body has its art.
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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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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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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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