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.
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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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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It is brave to be involved.
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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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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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The poetry is myself.
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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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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 am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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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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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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The music is in minors.
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It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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