To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSA 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.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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The poetry is myself.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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It is brave to be involved.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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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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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
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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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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The music is in minors.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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