When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSEach body has its art.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
-
-
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!
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
It is brave to be involved.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
And if sun comes how shall we greet him? shall we not dread him, shall we not fear him after so lengthy a session with shade?
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS