I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.
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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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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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 felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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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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The music is in minors.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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