Each body has its art.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSEven if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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The poetry is myself.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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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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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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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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The music is in minors.
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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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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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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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