Writing is a delicious agony.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSThe music is in minors.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
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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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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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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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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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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When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
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Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.
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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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