There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSThe music is in minors.
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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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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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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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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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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The poetry is myself.
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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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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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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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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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Each body has its art.
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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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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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