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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSArt hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Each body has its art.
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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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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.
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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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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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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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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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