I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSGoodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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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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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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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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The poetry is myself.
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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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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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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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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.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Each body has its art.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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