I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don’t pay attention ’cause it probably has floated into somebody else’s head.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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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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?
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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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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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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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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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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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