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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSGoodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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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 don’t like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
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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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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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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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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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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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