Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSLife must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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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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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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The music is in minors.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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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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When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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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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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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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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