Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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.
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There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
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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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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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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Writing is a delicious agony.
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A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
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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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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