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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSEach body has its art.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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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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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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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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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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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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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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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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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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The poetry is myself.
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