Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world. – Gwendolyn Brooks
A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers. – Gwendolyn Brooks
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
Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home. – Gwendolyn Brooks
Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction. – Alphonsus Liguori