I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSVery early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Poetry is life distilled.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Each body has its art.
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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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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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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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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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I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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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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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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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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