Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSThe music is in minors.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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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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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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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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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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I don’t like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
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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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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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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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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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