Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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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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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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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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A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
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Each body has its art.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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The poetry is myself.
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