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 think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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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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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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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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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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