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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSShe was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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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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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Each body has its art.
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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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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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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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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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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