No man can give me any word but Wait.
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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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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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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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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The poetry is myself.
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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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The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the ’60s: Independent fire!
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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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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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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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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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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It is brave to be involved.
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The music is in minors.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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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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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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What I’m fighting for now in my work… for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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