It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
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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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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