I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSOne reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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 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 am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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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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The poetry is myself.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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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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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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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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