Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSNo man can give me any word but Wait.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Each body has its art.
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I don’t like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
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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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
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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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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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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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