Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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 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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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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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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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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