What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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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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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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It is brave to be involved.
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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.
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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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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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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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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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Each body has its art.
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