I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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The poetry is myself.
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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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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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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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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the ’60s: Independent fire!
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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