I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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It is brave to be involved.
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Each body has its art.
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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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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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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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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