Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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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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It is brave to be involved.
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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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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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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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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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