Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSArt is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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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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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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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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