Life for my child is simple, and is good.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSEach body has its art.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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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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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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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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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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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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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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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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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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