Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSEach body has its art.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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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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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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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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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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