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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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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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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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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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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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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We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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The poetry is myself.
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When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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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It is brave to be involved.
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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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