Poetry is life distilled.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWriting is a delicious agony.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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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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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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The poetry is myself.
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It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
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