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?
GWENDOLYN BROOKSA writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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The music is in minors.
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When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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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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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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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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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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