It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSEven if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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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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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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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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