I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSGoodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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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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It is brave to be involved.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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The poetry is myself.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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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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