Poetry is life distilled.
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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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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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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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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When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
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Each body has its art.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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It is brave to be involved.
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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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I don’t like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
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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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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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