Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSGoodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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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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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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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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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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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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The poetry is myself.
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