I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSExhaust the little moment soon it dies.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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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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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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The poetry is myself.
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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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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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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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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 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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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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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