Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the ’60s: Independent fire!
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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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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
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The poetry is myself.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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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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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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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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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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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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