Writing is a delicious agony.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSShe was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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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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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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It is brave to be involved.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
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