With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWith melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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The music is in minors.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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A 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.
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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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Each body has its art.
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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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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