This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSReading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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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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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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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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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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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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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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The poetry is myself.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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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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