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 BROOKSReading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Each body has its art.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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I don’t like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
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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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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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What I’m fighting for now in my work… for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
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