It is brave to be involved.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSShe was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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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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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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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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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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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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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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 know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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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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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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When 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.
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I don’t like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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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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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
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