Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSThere are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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The music is in minors.
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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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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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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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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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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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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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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.
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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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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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