Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSExhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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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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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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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 know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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The poetry is myself.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Each body has its art.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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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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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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It is brave to be involved.
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The music is in minors.
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