Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWhen you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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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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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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The poetry is myself.
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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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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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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