Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSExhaust 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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What 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.
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A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
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The music is in minors.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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Each body has its art.
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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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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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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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 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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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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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