One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSBeware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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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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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
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Each body has its art.
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It is brave to be involved.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
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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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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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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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