Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSOne reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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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 swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
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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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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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