Writing is a delicious agony.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSPeople are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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What I’m fighting for now in my work… for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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.
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The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the ’60s: Independent fire!
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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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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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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
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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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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
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