Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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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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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 know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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It is brave to be involved.
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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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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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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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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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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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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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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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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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