Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSThere can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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It is brave to be involved.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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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 tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don’t pay attention ’cause it probably has floated into somebody else’s head.
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The poetry is myself.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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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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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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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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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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Writing is a delicious agony.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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