Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSShe was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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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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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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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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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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It is brave to be involved.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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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.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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