Writing is a delicious agony.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSArt is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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The poetry is myself.
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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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Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.
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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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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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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 am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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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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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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