There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSAnd 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?
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the ’60s: Independent fire!
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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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The music is in minors.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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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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Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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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