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?
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.
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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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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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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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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The music is in minors.
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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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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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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It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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