Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWe real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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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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Each body has its art.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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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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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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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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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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