With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.
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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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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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And if sun comes how shall we greet him? shall we not dread him, shall we not fear him after so lengthy a session with shade?
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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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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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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