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 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 swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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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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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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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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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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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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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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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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Each body has its art.
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