What, what am I to do with all of this life?
GWENDOLYN BROOKSLife for my child is simple, and is good.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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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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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the ’60s: Independent fire!
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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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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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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
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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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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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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