Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWhen you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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The poetry is myself.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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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 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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There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
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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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Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.
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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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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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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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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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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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