Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSArt is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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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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Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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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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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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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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I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
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Each body has its art.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
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