Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.
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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 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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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the ’60s: Independent fire!
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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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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Writing is a delicious agony.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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