I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
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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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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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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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 am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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The music is in minors.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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The poetry is myself.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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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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