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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSGoodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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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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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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 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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It is brave to be involved.
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