Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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 think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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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 am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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The poetry is myself.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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