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.
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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I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
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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.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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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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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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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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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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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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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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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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