I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI don’t like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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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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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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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?
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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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.
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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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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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