Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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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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We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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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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 tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don’t pay attention ’cause it probably has floated into somebody else’s head.
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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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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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The music is in minors.
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