It is brave to be involved.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSNo man can give me any word but Wait.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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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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When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
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The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the ’60s: Independent fire!
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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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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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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The poetry is myself.
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