Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI 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.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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The music is in minors.
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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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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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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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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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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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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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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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The poetry is myself.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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