I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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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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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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Each body has its art.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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