Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSArt is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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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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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 tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don’t pay attention ’cause it probably has floated into somebody else’s head.
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We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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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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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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It is brave to be involved.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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The poetry is myself.
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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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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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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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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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When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
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