I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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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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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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The poetry is myself.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Each body has its art.
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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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