As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSLife for my child is simple, and is good.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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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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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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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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