Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSShe was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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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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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
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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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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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Each body has its art.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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