Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWriting is a delicious agony.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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