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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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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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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It is brave to be involved.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don’t pay attention ’cause it probably has floated into somebody else’s head.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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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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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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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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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
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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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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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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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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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I don’t like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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