This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSArt hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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And if sun comes how shall we greet him? shall we not dread him, shall we not fear him after so lengthy a session with shade?
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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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The poetry is myself.
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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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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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Each body has its art.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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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.
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