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A 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.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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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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Food Growth Old Yourself
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself
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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Black Expression Fight Home Oppression Project Work
She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Deep Hereslf Learning Love Moments
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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Poem Start Thinking World Writing
It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Brave Character Fear
The music is in minors.
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Minority Music One Liner
To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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Hand Lights Love Touch Yourself
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Myself Talk Writing
I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Deep God Lonely Love Master Thinking
Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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Children Death Forget Remember Yourself
Poetry is life distilled.
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Life One Liner Poetry
Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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Battle End Inspirational Live Song Win
When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
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Black Color Human Room Understand White
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Art Material Translation World
Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Beginning Fact Goodness Life Simplicity
There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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Insurance Man Oneself White
$Gwendolyn Brooks Quote - It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.$

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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Death Fear Myself Realize
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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Black Identity Minority Worth Yourself
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Chocolate Preference Truth
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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Death Gold Identity Moments
Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Afraid Journey Path Travel
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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Attention Float Head Poet Yourself
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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Cool Death Reality Sing
The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the ’60s: Independent fire!
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Fire Flower Independent Language Poet Sweet
Writing is a delicious agony.
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Delicious One Liner Pain Poet Writing
Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Death Moments Time

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