Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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Each body has its art.
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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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I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don’t pay attention ’cause it probably has floated into somebody else’s head.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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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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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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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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