With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWhat 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.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Poetry is life distilled.
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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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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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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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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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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The music is in minors.
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And if sun comes how shall we greet him? shall we not dread him, shall we not fear him after so lengthy a session with shade?
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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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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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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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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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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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It is brave to be involved.
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