Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSNo man can give me any word but Wait.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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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We 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.
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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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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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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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It is brave to be involved.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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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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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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