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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSEven if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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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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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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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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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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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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