Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSShe was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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It is brave to be involved.
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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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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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The music is in minors.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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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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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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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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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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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