Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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It is brave to be involved.
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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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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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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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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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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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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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The music is in minors.
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