I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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It is brave to be involved.
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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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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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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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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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