Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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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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A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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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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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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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 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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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