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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don’t pay attention ’cause it probably has floated into somebody else’s head.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Each body has its art.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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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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