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 BROOKSDo not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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The music is in minors.
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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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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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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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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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