There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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It is brave to be involved.
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The poetry is myself.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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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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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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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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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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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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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Each body has its art.
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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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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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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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.
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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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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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