It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWriting is a delicious agony.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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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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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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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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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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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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The poetry is myself.
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