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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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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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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Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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It is brave to be involved.
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The music is in minors.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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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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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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 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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