I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWhen 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.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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The poetry is myself.
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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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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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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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It is brave to be involved.
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The music is in minors.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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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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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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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