Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSLife must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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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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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Each body has its art.
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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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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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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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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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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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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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It is brave to be involved.
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