To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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It is brave to be involved.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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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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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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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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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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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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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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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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It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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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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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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