Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSAlready I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
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It is brave to be involved.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Each body has its art.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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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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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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