I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSBooks are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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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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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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The poetry is myself.
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There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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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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The music is in minors.
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It is brave to be involved.
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