Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSLife for my child is simple, and is good.
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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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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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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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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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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