Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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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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 think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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And if sun comes how shall we greet him? shall we not dread him, shall we not fear him after so lengthy a session with shade?
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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 am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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What I’m fighting for now in my work… for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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I don’t like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
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