It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSArt hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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I 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.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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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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