Life for my child is simple, and is good.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSNo man can give me any word but Wait.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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The poetry is myself.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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And if sun comes how shall we greet him? shall we not dread him, shall we not fear him after so lengthy a session with shade?
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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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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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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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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The music is in minors.
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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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Writing is a delicious agony.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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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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