Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSLife for my child is simple, and is good.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Each body has its art.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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What I’m fighting for now in my work… for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
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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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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And if sun comes how shall we greet him? shall we not dread him, shall we not fear him after so lengthy a session with shade?
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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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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