We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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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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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The music is in minors.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.
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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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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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