What, what am I to do with all of this life?
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWhat, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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It is brave to be involved.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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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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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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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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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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The music is in minors.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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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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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 think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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