Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSBooks are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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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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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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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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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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