As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSThe music is in minors.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Each body has its art.
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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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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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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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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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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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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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