What, what am I to do with all of this life?
GWENDOLYN BROOKSLife must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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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 am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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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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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don’t pay attention ’cause it probably has floated into somebody else’s head.
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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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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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