Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSAlready I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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 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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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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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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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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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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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