And if sun comes how shall we greet him? shall we not dread him, shall we not fear him after so lengthy a session with shade?
GWENDOLYN BROOKSAnd if sun comes how shall we greet him? shall we not dread him, shall we not fear him after so lengthy a session with shade?
GWENDOLYN BROOKSBe yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWhen you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSVery early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSSometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSIt is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSArt is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSA 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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSReading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWriting is a delicious agony.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSLife for my child is simple, and is good.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI 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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