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 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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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don’t pay attention ’cause it probably has floated into somebody else’s head.
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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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The poetry is myself.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Each body has its art.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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And if sun comes how shall we greet him? shall we not dread him, shall we not fear him after so lengthy a session with shade?
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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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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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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