This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSAbortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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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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When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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The poetry is myself.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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The music is in minors.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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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