What, what am I to do with all of this life?
GWENDOLYN BROOKSDo not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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The poetry is myself.
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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 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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Each body has its art.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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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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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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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 like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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