With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWhat, what am I to do with all of this life?
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Each body has its art.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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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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I don’t like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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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Writing is a delicious agony.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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