Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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It is brave to be involved.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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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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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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