Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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The poetry is myself.
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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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The music is in minors.
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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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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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It is brave to be involved.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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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What I’m fighting for now in my work… for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
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