The poetry is myself.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSAbortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
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When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
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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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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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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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