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.
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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There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
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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 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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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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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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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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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
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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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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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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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