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 BROOKSArt is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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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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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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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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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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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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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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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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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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