With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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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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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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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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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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The music is in minors.
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I don’t like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
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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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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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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