She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSShe was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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The poetry is myself.
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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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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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What I’m fighting for now in my work… for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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It is brave to be involved.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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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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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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