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.
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 think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
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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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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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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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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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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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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When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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It is brave to be involved.
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