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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSDo not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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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I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don’t pay attention ’cause it probably has floated into somebody else’s head.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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It is brave to be involved.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.
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The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the ’60s: Independent fire!
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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