No man can give me any word but Wait.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI 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.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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The music is in minors.
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I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
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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 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.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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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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