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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWe are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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It is brave to be involved.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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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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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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The poetry is myself.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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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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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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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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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