It is brave to be involved.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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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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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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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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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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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