Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSArt hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Poetry is life distilled.
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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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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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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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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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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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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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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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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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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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