Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSThis is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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The music is in minors.
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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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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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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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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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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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.
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