It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSAlready I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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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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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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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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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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
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We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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