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We real cool. We Left school....

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 96 quotes

We are each other's harvest; ...

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

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

Books are meat and medicine a...

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

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

She was afraid to suggest to ...

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 96 quotes

The civil rights situation is...

The civil rights situation is like a pregnancy. It will get worse, I believe, before it gets better. What the usual pregnancy comes to is a decent baby. That is what we all hope will be the end product of this stress. It is customary, at the end of a pregnancy, to have for your pains a decent baby.

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

Abortions will not let you fo...

Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

There are no magics or elves ...

There are no magics or elves / Or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must / Wizard a track through our own screaming weed.

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

It is brave to be involved ...

It is brave to be involved

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

I am a writer perhaps because...

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.

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

When I start writing a poem, ...

When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

Words can do wonderful things...

Words can do wonderful things. They pound, purr. They can urge, they can wheedle, whip, whine. They can sing, sass, singe. They can churn, check, channelize. They can be a "Hup two three four." They can forge a fiery army of a hundred languid men.

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

When you love a man, he becom...

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 96 quotes

When you use the term minorit...

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

Don't let anyone call you a m...

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.

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

I felt that I had to write. E...

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 96 quotes

We are each other's magnitude...

We are each other's magnitude and bond.

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

I am interested in telling my...

I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

Art is a refining and evocati...

Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

My last defense / Is the pres...

My last defense / Is the present tense.

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

Already I am no longer looked...

Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....