I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
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 am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
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The music is in minors.
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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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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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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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We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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