Writing is a delicious agony.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSSometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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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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We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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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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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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