No man can give me any word but Wait.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI 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.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Each body has its art.
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The music is in minors.
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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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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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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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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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