Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
-
-
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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
Each body has its art.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
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 BROOKS -
This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
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 BROOKS -
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS






