Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSReading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
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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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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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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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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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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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I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
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