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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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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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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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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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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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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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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The music is in minors.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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It is brave to be involved.
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I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
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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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When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
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