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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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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There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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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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The music is in minors.
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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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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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It is brave to be involved.
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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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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the ’60s: Independent fire!
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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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