When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSEven if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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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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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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The poetry is myself.
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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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It is brave to be involved.
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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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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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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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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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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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