Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSArt is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.
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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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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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The music is in minors.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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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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Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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