I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSTruth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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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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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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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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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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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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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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