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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSBeware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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I don’t like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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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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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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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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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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