Poetry is life distilled.
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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And if sun comes how shall we greet him? shall we not dread him, shall we not fear him after so lengthy a session with shade?
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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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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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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 think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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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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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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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It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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