Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSThe poetry is myself.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Each body has its art.
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We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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