People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSArt is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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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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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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I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
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The poetry is myself.
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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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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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