I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSOne reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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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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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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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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What I’m fighting for now in my work… for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
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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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The music is in minors.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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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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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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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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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