Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSIt is brave to be involved.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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It is brave to be involved.
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What I’m fighting for now in my work… for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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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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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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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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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When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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