I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWe real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
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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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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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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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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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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