It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWhat 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.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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The poetry is myself.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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It is brave to be involved.
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I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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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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When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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