I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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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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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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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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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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The poetry is myself.
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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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Each body has its art.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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