Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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It is brave to be involved.
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Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.
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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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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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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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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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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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