Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWriting is a delicious agony.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Each body has its art.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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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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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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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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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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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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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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The poetry is myself.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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