What I’m fighting for now in my work… for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSTruth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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It is brave to be involved.
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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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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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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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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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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Each body has its art.
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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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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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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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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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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