Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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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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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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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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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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The music is in minors.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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It is brave to be involved.
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We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
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The poetry is myself.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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