Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSBeware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
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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 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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
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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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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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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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The poetry is myself.
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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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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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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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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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It is brave to be involved.
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