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?
GWENDOLYN BROOKSOne reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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It is brave to be involved.
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Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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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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Each body has its art.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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