I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSAnd 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?
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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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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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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The music is in minors.
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We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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