I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSDo not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
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I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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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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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
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The music is in minors.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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