This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSIt is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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It is brave to be involved.
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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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The music is in minors.
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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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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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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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