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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The music is in minors.
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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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When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
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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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It is brave to be involved.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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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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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
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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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