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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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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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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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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And if sun comes how shall we greet him? shall we not dread him, shall we not fear him after so lengthy a session with shade?
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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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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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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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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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