Writing is a delicious agony.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSA 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.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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It is brave to be involved.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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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 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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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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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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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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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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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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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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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