Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSLive not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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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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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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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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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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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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