When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSGood health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the ’60s: Independent fire!
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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The poetry is myself.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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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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 for my child is simple, and is good.
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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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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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The music is in minors.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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