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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.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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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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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Each body has its art.
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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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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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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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$Gwendolyn Brooks Quote - It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.$

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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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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The poetry is myself.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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