No man can give me any word but Wait.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSThere can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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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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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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The poetry is myself.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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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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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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