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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSLife must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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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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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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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
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I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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