Each body has its art.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSLife for my child is simple, and is good.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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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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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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The music is in minors.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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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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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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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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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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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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