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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSSometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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 like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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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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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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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