One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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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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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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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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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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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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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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