The music is in minors.
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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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
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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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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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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Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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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