I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSNo man can give me any word but Wait.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Each body has its art.
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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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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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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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And if sun comes how shall we greet him? shall we not dread him, shall we not fear him after so lengthy a session with shade?
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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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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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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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