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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSVery early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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It is brave to be involved.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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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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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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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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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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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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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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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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Each body has its art.
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