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Just so you know," Bubby says before returning to his seat, "if I had been there, I would have carried you to the hospital on my back. ~ Gwendolyn Heasley
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They were old, their covers cracked and their bindings frayed, but as far as Gwendolyn was concerned that only made the words cocooned between their musty pages more precious. ~ Teresa Medeiros
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Happily ever after is not a place: It's a state of being, and you have to work at it every day. ~ Gwendolyn Heasley
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If she had been a normal female, she would have swooned. But she was not normal, never had been.
"Good grief, you are impossibly handsome," she said breathlessly. "I vow, I have never experienced the like. For an instant, my brain stopped altogether. I must say, my lord, you do clean up well. But next time, I wish you would call out a warning before you come into view, and give me a chance to brace myself for the onslaught."
Something dark flickered in his eyes. Then a corner of his hard mouth quirked up. "Miss Adams, you have an interesting - a unique - way with a compliment."
The trace of a smile disoriented her further. "It is a unique experience," she said. "I never knew my brain to shut off before, not while I was full awake. I wonder if the phenomenon has been scientifically documented and what physiological explanation has been proposed. ~ Loretta Chase
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Sometimes, we forget to reflect back on all the great times we had by just ourselves. You can be your own best friend, you know. ~ Gwendolyn Heasley
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breath,
life after seven decades plus three years
is a lot of breathing. seventy three years on this
earth is a lot of taking in and giving out, is a
life of coming from somewhere and for many a bunch
of going nowhere.

how do we celebrate a poet who has created
music with words for over fifty years, who has
showered magic on her people, who has redefined
poetry into a black world exactness
thereby giving the universe an insight into
darkroads?

just say she interprets beauty and wants to
give life, say she is patient with phoniness
and doesn't mind people calling her gwen or sister.
say she sees the genius in our children, is visionary
about possibilities, sees as clearly as ray charles and
stevie wonder, hears like determined elephants looking
for food. say that her touch is fine wood, her memory
is like an african roadmap detailing adventure and
clarity, yet returning to chicago's south evans
to record the journey. say her voice is majestic
and magnetic as she speaks in poetry, rhythms, song
and spirited trumpets, say she is dark skinned,
melanin rich, small-boned, hurricane-willed,
with a mind like a tornado redefining the landscape.

life after seven decades plus three years
is a lot of breathing.
gwendolyn, gwen, sister g has
not disappointed our expectations.
in the middle
Haki R. Madhubuti
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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I cannot live without you, Gwendolyn, nor can I believe the gods have brought us through so much only to tear us apart again. If I must face the possibility of death, then so be it. ~ Miriam Minger
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Gwendolyn and I have a beautiful relationship. She tells me everything. I haven't killed her yet. ~ Kirsten Miller
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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. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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Like the end, the myth of the beginning overlaps the cycle of birth and death, unfolding like a Möbius strip in ceaseless continuum, which is the paradox that sits above and beyond intellectual explanation in the realm where empirical logic halts. ~ Gwendolyn Taunton
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What I'm fighting for now in my work ... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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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. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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She was afraid to suggest to him that to most people, nothing "happens." That most people merely live from day to day until they die. That, after he had been dead a year, doubtless fewer than five people would think of him oftener than once a year. That there might even come a year when no one on earth would think of him at all. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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existence like every middle-school student who'd ever been forced to come out of their bedroom. ~ Gwendolyn Knapp
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Of course, they don't like him! Liking is for ninny-hammers. Real men elicit rancor." Pausing for a moment of deep consideration, she added, "Loathing, even. But never liking."
"Hatred, perhaps?" suggested Mary's brother-in-law, hiding his amused smile behind a tone of excessive gravity.
Mrs. Fustian was not impressed. "Certainly not. Any common laborer can hate. True connoisseurs prefer more subtle shades of aversion. ~ Lauren Willig
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A language so beautiful and lethal
My mouth bleeds when I speak it. - ~ Gwendolyn MacEwen
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What shall I give my children? who are poor, / Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land ... ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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The universe was a disorderly mess, the only interesting bits being the organised anomalies. Hackworth had once taken his family out rowing on the pond in the park, and the ends of the yellow oars spun off compact vortices, and Fiona, who had taught herself the physics of liquids through numerous experimental beverage spills and in the bathtub, demanded an explanation for these holes in water. She leaned over the gunwale, Gwendolyn holding the sash of her dress, and felt those vortices with her hands, wanting to understand them. The rest of the pond, simply water in no particular order, was uninteresting. ~ Neal Stephenson
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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Once inside I stripped off my clothes and showered. Refreshed, I pick up my phone and type.

ME: I want you. Come over now if you feel the same way.

I held my breath as a I waited for a response but after several minutes none came. Maybe he wasn't going to come. ~ Gwendolyn Grace
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I realize now that tragedy spares no one; it just courts each of us differently. ~ Gwendolyn M. Plano
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Now you comprehend your first and final lover / in the dark receding planets of his eyes, / and this is the hour when you know moreover / that the god you have loved always / will descend and lie with you in paradise. ~ Gwendolyn MacEwen
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People aren't pianos. You don't hit a certain note and know what you're going to get. ~ Gwendolyn Heasley
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Wisdom is to be fostered where it is found and those who judge without discretion do so because they themselves are blinded and chained to the vestibule of ignorance. Those lacking the sight to understand the circumstance and perspective of another place primacy on the material over the spiritual and become symptomatic of the problem rather than the cure. ~ Gwendolyn Taunton
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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We are things of dry hours and the involuntary plan,
Grayed in, and gray. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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I know what I am. I know that I've chosen to identify as a transgender woman, and that I am - by and large - happy with where I am in this world. I'm far from perfect, and I could give you a list as long as my arms of the things I'd love to change. Nevertheless, I am still here, and I am still me, and no one can change that without my permission.
-Gwendolyn Ann Smith, We're All Someone's Freak ~ Kate Bornstein S. Bear Bergman
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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I refused to let it all be for nothing. Because even within all the ugliness of the world there was beauty. Some of it needed to be pulled from the dirt and dusted off, given wings. ~ Gwendolyn Field
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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Nothing could stop Mississippi. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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But really, all memories are like paintings: They can be incredibly vivid and lifelike. But in the end, they both just remind us that we only get to live any particular moment once, even if we remember it forever. ~ Gwendolyn Heasley
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But it is never over;
nothing ends until we want it to.
Look, in shattered midnights,
On black ice under silver trees,
We are still dancing, dancing. ~ Gwendolyn MacEwen
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The music is in minors. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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Life must be aromatic.
There must be scent, somehow there must be some. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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Wherever life can grow, it will.
It will sprout out,
and do the best it can.
I give you what I have.
You don't get all your questions answered in this world.
How many answers shall be found
in the developing world of my Poem?
I don't know. Nevertheless I put my Poem,
which is my life, into your hands, where it will do the best it can. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry ... I still do feel that a poet has a duty to words, and that words can do wonderful things, and it's too bad to just let them lie there without doing anything with and for them. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, "Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night." You will be right. For that is the hard home-run. Live not for battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song. Live in the along. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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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 ... ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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Be careful what you swallow. Chew! ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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Maybe not all goodbyes are the end - and that's what makes them good. ~ Gwendolyn Heasley
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Save Our Planet Recycle Knowledge ~ Gwendolyn Moore RN MSN Ed
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I thought it was a fleeting emotion, something that eventually fades like lust. Now I know that real love is when the soul meets its true mate. True and undeniable. It's as instinctual as the need to eat, sleep or breathe. Like a puzzle piece that only fits in one place, you are my home, the only place I belong. You are it for me. My true. ~ Gwendolyn Grace
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Have you ever heard of the butterfly effect? I learned about it in Science last year… Basically, the butterfly effect is a chaos theory, attributed to a guy named Edward Lorenz. Here's the Clffnotes version: A butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil, and it sets off a tornado in Texas. It means the smallest moments of the past, even the ones that don't have anything to do with us, affect our future, and our future selves ~ Gwendolyn Heasley
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Keep following your dreams even if you get off course. ~ Gwendolyn Heasley
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Yeah, phones are annoying. People expect you to be in constant contact even when you're trying to get away. It's like everywhere you are, you aren't just there; you have to be somewhere else electronically as well. ~ Gwendolyn Heasley
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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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You do not have to die this certain day.
Death will abide, will pamper your postponement.
I assure you death will wait. Death has
a lot of time. Death can
attend to you tomorrow. Or next week. Death is
just down the street; is most obliging neighbor;
can meet you any moment.
You need not die today.
Stay here–through pout or pain or peskyness.
Stay here. See what the news is going to be tomorrow.
Graves grow no green that you can use.
Remember, green's your color. You are Spring. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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People like definite decisions, / Tidy answers, all the little ravelings / Snipped off, the lint removed, they / Hop happily among their roughs / Calling what they can't clutch insanity / Or saintliness. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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No man can give me any word but Wait ... ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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Sixth-grade sweethearts. Wow. New Yorkers only commit to that type of monogamy with the Yankees or Giants ~ Gwendolyn Heasley
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Do you think that Gwendolyn Brooks would give an award to someone who hated Black women, the lie that was circulated throughout New York and reached all the way down to Martinique where I was a guest Professor? The lie was circulated by people who don't read my books. ~ Ishmael Reed
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If
you scream, you're marked "insane."
But silence is a place in which to scream! ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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Vulnerability is a pretty scary thing. You can feel naked in a lot of different ways. ~ Gwendolyn Heasley
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Vyck had often encouraged him to engage an opponent's mind rather than its weapons. often this advice was accompanied by the casual remark that if he couldn't outwit a fox he shouldn't be in the woods. ~ Gwendolyn Druyor
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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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Book Power

Books feed and cure and
chortle and collide.

In all this willful world
of thud and thump and thunder
man's relevance to books
continues to declare.

Books are meat and medicine
and flame and flight and flower,
steel, stitch, and cloud and clout,
and drumbeats in the air. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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We can't ignore right-wing demagogues who insist that the word of the doctor who proclaims a child's sex at birth somehow holds more sway over the reality of the body than the word of the person who inhabits it. - Gwendolyn Ann Smith ~ Kate Bornstein
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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You are the beautiful half
of a golden hurt. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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Talking with Sweetbread, I wonder if that's what love is: the ability to go away and to come back again as if nothing has changed, even though everything has changed. ~ Gwendolyn Heasley
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I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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And speaking of hotties, I have to go," I finish and turn to finish my walk toward Bubby. ~ Gwendolyn Heasley
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Not that anybody is saying that these people have no trouble.
Merely that it is trouble with a gold-flecked beautiful banner.

Nobody is saying that these people do not ultimately cease to be. And
Sometimes their passings are even more painful than ours.
It is just that so often they live till their hair is white.
They make excellent corpses, among the expensive flowers. . . . ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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I want to feel the surging
Of my sad people's soul
Hidden by a minstrel-smile. ~ Gwendolyn B. Bennett
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A remarkable fact of nature is that problems almost always get solved just when they are meant to. And those who can help solve the problems almost always show up at the right time. ~ Cynthia Rylant
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The best dreams are the ones we have as children because they're most pure. ~ Gwendolyn Heasley
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But the sun was shining, and some of the people in the world had been left alive, and it was doubtful whether the ridiculousness of man would ever completely succeed in destroying the world - or, in fact, the basic equanimity of the least and commonest flower: for would its kind not come up again in the spring? come up, if necessary, among, between, or out of - beastly inconvenient - the smashed corpses lying in strict composure, in that hush infallible and sincere?
And was not this something to be thankful for?
And in the meantime, while people did live they would be grand, would be glorious and brave, would have nimble hearts that would beat and beat. They would even get up nonsense, through wars, through divorce, through evictions and jiltings and taxes.
And, in the meantime, she was going to have another baby.
The weather was bidding her bon voyage. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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Everybody here
is infirm.
Everybody here is infirm. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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I was reading Carl Sandburg and Gwendolyn Brooks, and I'm still very, very deeply moved by Gwendolyn Brooks's life and her work. ~ Sandra Cisneros
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True forgiveness for me has been and is a progression of faltering baby steps through a storm of flying debris. ~ Gwendolyn M. Plano
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Surprisingly, Gwendolyn, I have more important things to do with my time, like put bamboo shoots under my nails or drill holes in all my teeth. ~ Shelly Laurenston
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Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about. With all that's going on, how could I stop? ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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Does it need to be so tight?" Nathaniel objected as Silas retied the cravat in a complicated series of knots, his gloved fingers moving with nimble certainty over the fabric.
"I'm afraid so, if you wish to remain fashionable," Silas replied. "And we don't want a repeat of the incident with Lady Gwendolyn."
Nathaniel scoffed. "How was I supposed to know tying it that way meant that I intended to proposition her? I have better things to do then learn secret signals with handkerchiefs and neckcloths."
"Had you listened to me, I would have told you, and spared you from getting champagne thrown in your face---though I heard several people say afterward that that was their favorite part of the dinner. ~ Margaret Rogerson
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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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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 ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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I think it must be lonely to be God.
Nobody loves a master. No. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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To be in love
Is to touch things with a lighter hand.
In yourself you stretch, you are well. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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To divine is to imagine the world rightly, to see past the illusion that we are separate from the entire fabric of reality. ~ Gwendolyn Womack
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Who you are depends on where you are. Why doesn't anyone ever tell you that? That would have been a great piece of advice. ~ Gwendolyn Heasley
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I've always thought of myself as a reporter. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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Writing is a delicious agony. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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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. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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…it was not whim or wildness which made me go, but a sudden clear realization that tho you were the first man of importance to me, you could not be the last. - Gwendolyn MacEwen to Milton Acorn, 1963 (age 21) ~ Jeanette Lynes
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If thou be more than hate or atmosphere
Step forth in splendor, mortify our wolves.
Or we assume a sovereignty ourselves. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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did a soul's path adhere to a pattern, like the connecting lines on a mandala? ~ Gwendolyn Womack
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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 disguise. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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People are so in need, in need of help.
People want so much that they do not know. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
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