Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSLife must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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The music is in minors.
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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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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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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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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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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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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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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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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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Each body has its art.
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