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 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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The poetry is myself.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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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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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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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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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Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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