Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSIt is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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The music is in minors.
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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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Each body has its art.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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I don’t like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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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