What, what am I to do with all of this life?
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWe are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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It is brave to be involved.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
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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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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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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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 like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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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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