I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
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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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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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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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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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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Each body has its art.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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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 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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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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Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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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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