This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSSometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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The poetry is myself.
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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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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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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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Each body has its art.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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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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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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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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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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The music is in minors.
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