Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSTruth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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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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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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