Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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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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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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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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It is brave to be involved.
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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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What I’m fighting for now in my work… for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
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There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
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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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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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