We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSOne reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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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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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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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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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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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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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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The poetry is myself.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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