What I’m fighting for now in my work… for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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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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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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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 know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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It is brave to be involved.
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