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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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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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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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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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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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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It is brave to be involved.
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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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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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