The poetry is myself.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWhen 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.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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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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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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Each body has its art.
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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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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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 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.
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