What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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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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And if sun comes how shall we greet him? shall we not dread him, shall we not fear him after so lengthy a session with shade?
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When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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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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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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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