When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSGoodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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The poetry is myself.
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It is brave to be involved.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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