What, what am I to do with all of this life?
GWENDOLYN BROOKSEven if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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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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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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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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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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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Writing is a delicious agony.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don’t pay attention ’cause it probably has floated into somebody else’s head.
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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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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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