It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSIt is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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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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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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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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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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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. 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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The poetry is myself.
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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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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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