The poetry is myself.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSBeware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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 swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.
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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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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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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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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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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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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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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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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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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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