I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSAs you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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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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There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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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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Each body has its art.
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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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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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The poetry is myself.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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