What, what am I to do with all of this life?
GWENDOLYN BROOKSEach body has its art.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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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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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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It is brave to be involved.
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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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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The music is in minors.
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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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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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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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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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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 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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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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