Each body has its art.
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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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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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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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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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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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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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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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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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
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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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Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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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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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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