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.
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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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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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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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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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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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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It is brave to be involved.
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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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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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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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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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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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