Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSDo not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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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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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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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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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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The music is in minors.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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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 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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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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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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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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