Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSDo not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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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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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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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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.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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