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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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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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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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 am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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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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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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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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