Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSThere are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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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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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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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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