Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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It is brave to be involved.
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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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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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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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