Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSPoetry is life distilled.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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 am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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The poetry is myself.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
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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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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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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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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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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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