Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
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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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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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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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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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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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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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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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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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