It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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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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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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It is brave to be involved.
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Each body has its art.
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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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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