I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSNo man can give me any word but Wait.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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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 know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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