Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWhen 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.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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The music is in minors.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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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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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Each body has its art.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
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