I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSThe music is in minors.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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It is brave to be involved.
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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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
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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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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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What I’m fighting for now in my work… for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
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When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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