It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSThe music is in minors.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Writing is a delicious agony.
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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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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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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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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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Each body has its art.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
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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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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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