Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWe don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Each body has its art.
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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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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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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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