The music is in minors.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSTo be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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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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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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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Each body has its art.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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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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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 tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don’t pay attention ’cause it probably has floated into somebody else’s head.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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