Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSGoodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
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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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When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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