People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSEven if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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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Each body has its art.
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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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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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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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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
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The poetry is myself.
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