Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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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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It is brave to be involved.
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When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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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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 think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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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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Each body has its art.
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