I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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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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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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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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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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It is brave to be involved.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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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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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
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