What, what am I to do with all of this life?
GWENDOLYN BROOKSArt hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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When 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.
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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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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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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It is brave to be involved.
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