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 BROOKSWe don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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It is brave to be involved.
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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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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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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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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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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There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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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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