Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSExhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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It is brave to be involved.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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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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Each body has its art.
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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 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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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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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