There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI 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.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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The music is in minors.
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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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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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Writing is a delicious agony.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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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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