Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWhat 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.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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The poetry is myself.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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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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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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The music is in minors.
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It is brave to be involved.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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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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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Poetry is life distilled.
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When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
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