This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSPeople are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.
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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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The poetry is myself.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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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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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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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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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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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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