Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSDo not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Each body has its art.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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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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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.
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We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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