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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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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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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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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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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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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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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When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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The poetry is myself.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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