There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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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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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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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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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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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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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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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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The music is in minors.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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