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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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$Gwendolyn Brooks Quote - It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.$

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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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The poetry is myself.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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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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And if sun comes how shall we greet him? shall we not dread him, shall we not fear him after so lengthy a session with shade?
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