I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSThe poetry is myself.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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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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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Each body has its art.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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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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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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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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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don’t pay attention ’cause it probably has floated into somebody else’s head.
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