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?
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 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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Each body has its art.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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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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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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The poetry is myself.
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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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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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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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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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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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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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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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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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