Each body has its art.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSGoodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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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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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.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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