Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSThis is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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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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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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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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It is brave to be involved.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
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