Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSGood health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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What I’m fighting for now in my work… for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
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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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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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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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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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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Each body has its art.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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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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When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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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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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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