I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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It is brave to be involved.
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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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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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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 know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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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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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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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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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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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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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