Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSShe was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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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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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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 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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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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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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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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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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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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What I’m fighting for now in my work… for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
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