Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSReading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Don’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.
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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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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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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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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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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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 think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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