Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSBeware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSBe yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWhen 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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSPeople are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSGood health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSAlready I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSDon’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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSDo not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSLife must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSTruth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSTo be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSEach body has its art.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS