I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSDo not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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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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We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
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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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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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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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 it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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