Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWe real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
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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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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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The music is in minors.
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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 am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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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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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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