With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSArt hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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It is brave to be involved.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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Each body has its art.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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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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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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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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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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