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Gwendolyn Brooks
"What shall I give my children? who are poor, / Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land ..."
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Gwendolyn Brooks
#Children Quotes
#Land Quotes
#Giving Quotes
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“We talk to each other in code. We said that 420 was a special number. It was a time. It was a date. It was a symbol for what we did for passive resistance.”
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“I realized that if I wanted to truly talk about vastness and the sublime and scale and the West - recurrent themes in my overall work - I needed to engage with the vast ocean that is Los Angeles.”
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“If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?”
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“Make your life a story worth telling. You only get one shot at this existence, and one day when you’re gone the most important thing you’ll leave behind is the legacy of the life you lived. Make sure you make it a story you’re proud to have others tell.”
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“She understood. They were plastic flowers of words—but they looked nice on the surface.”
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“I actually think I'm more of a turtle than Verne is. Where Verne is up on two legs and moving at full speed and doesn't pull his head into the shell very often, I in reality was five or ten minutes later to every recording session.”
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“Teaching boys to bake cakes? That's no way to maintain an industrial empire.”
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“for man, woman, and child the tender, irregular, sensitive, living foot, which does not even stand with all its little surface on the ground, and which makes no base to satisfy an architectural eye, is, as it were, the unexpected thing. ... nothing makes a more helpless and unsymmetrical sign than does a naked foot.”
