Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSIt is brave to be involved.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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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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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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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 am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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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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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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