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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSTo be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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It is brave to be involved.
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I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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The poetry is myself.
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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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The music is in minors.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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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.
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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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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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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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