Life for my child is simple, and is good.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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It is brave to be involved.
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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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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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 know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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