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Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes: Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
         

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.


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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.



We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.

We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.



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.

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.



Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.



We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.



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.

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.



I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.

I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.



Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.



Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.



Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.

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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Never chase a person that doesn't know your worth because the moment you catch him you will always feel you were never good enough.

Never chase a person that doesn't know your worth because the moment you catch him you will always feel you were never good enough.



Realize that God uses the fires of life to purify your faith, to shape you into Christ’s image, and to cause you to love Him…even more!

Realize that God uses the fires of life to purify your faith, to shape you into Christ’s image, and to cause you to love Him…even more!



All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.

All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.



[Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the atom bomb.]

[Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the atom bomb.]



You'll get my assault weapon when you pry it out of my curious six-year-old's cold dead hands.

You'll get my assault weapon when you pry it out of my curious six-year-old's cold dead hands.



A tree is a thought, an obstruction stopping the flow of wind and light, trapping water, housing insects, birds, and animals, and breathing in and out. How treelike the human, how human the tree.

A tree is a thought, an obstruction stopping the flow of wind and light, trapping water, housing insects, birds, and animals, and breathing in and out. How treelike the human, how human the tree.



We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.



Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past.

Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past.



Each being is sacred - meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared to the value of another being.

Each being is sacred - meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared to the value of another being.




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