I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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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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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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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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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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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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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The music is in minors.
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There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
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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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The poetry is myself.
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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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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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