Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSArt is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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 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 like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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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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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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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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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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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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