I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSDo not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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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When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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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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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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The music is in minors.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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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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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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