As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWhat, what am I to do with all of this life?
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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The music is in minors.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
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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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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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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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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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 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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