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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWhen you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Each body has its art.
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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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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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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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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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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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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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