Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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The music is in minors.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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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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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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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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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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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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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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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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