Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSPeople are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Each body has its art.
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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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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.
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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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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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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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