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Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
Brief author info: Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) American writer, poet and novelist known for her strong voice and social observation; much of work centers around the African American experience in America; as such, considered to have foreshadowed later African American writers' works (such as Imamu Amiri Baraka's); won Pulitzer Prize for Annie Allen, her second book of poems; well known for her novel Maud Martha.
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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man's shirt on its morning run.
Poetry is life distilled.
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It is not that you become soft [from illness] so much as that the world you live in expands and your awareness of it is enormously enlarged.
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You have to live your life according to what comforts you, not what the rest of your family thinks you ought to be doing.
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Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
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Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
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