Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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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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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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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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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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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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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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