She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSReading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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The poetry is myself.
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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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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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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Each body has its art.
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