Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSTruth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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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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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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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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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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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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When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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 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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