With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSArt hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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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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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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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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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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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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The poetry is myself.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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