Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSBe yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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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We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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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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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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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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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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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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The poetry is myself.
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Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.
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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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Each body has its art.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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