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.
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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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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What I’m fighting for now in my work… for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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The poetry is myself.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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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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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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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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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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