Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSAlready I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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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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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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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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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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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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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 am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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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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