It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSNo man can give me any word but Wait.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Each body has its art.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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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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The music is in minors.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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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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