Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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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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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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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It is brave to be involved.
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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.
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Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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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.
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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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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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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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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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