We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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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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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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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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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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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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