Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSIt is brave to be involved.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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The music is in minors.
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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.
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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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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
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Each body has its art.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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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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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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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 swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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