We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSBe yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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It is brave to be involved.
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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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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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I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
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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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The music is in minors.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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When 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.
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