Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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 am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Each body has its art.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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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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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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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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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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The music is in minors.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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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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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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