Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSIt is brave to be involved.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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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The music is in minors.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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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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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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