I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSTo be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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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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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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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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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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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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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 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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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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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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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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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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