She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSTruth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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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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The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the ’60s: Independent fire!
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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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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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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The poetry is myself.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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