Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSAlready I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Each body has its art.
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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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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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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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The music is in minors.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don’t pay attention ’cause it probably has floated into somebody else’s head.
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A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
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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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