Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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The music is in minors.
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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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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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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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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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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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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What I’m fighting for now in my work… for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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