She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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It is brave to be involved.
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The music is in minors.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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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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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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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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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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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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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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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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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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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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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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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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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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