Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSAs you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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The poetry is myself.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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It is brave to be involved.
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