Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSDo not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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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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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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It is brave to be involved.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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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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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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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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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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