I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSEven if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.
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