We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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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Writing is a delicious agony.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
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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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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don’t pay attention ’cause it probably has floated into somebody else’s head.
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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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