To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSLife must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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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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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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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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When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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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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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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The poetry is myself.
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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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