With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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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.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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.
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It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
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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.
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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
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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.
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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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I don’t like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
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Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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