No man can give me any word but Wait.
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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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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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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Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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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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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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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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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The poetry is myself.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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It is brave to be involved.
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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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