Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSThe poetry is myself.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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What I’m fighting for now in my work… for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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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 desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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The music is in minors.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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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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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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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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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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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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