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Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.

When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.

I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: Nothing could stop Mississippi.

Nothing could stop Mississippi.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: My Poem is life, and not finished.It shall never be finished.My Poem is life, and can grow.

My Poem is life, and not finished.
It shall never be finished.
My Poem is life, and can grow.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: Poetry is life distilled.

Poetry is life distilled.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.

Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: It is lonesome, yes. For we are the last of the loud. Nevertheless, live. Conduct your blooming in the noise and whip of the whirlwind.

It is lonesome, yes. For we are the last of the loud. Nevertheless, live. Conduct your blooming in the noise and whip of the whirlwind.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: Life for my child is simple, and is good.

Life for my child is simple, and is good.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: I think it must be lonely to be God.Nobody loves a master. No.

I think it must be lonely to be God.
Nobody loves a master. No.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.

Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.

As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man's shirt on its morning run.

There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man's shirt on its morning run.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: What, what am I to do with all of this life?

What, what am I to do with all of this life?

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: Even if you are not ready for dayit cannot always be night.

Even if you are not ready for day
it cannot always be night.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.

I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

When you use the term minority or minorities
in reference to people, you're telling them that
they're less than somebody else.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about. With all that's going on, how could I stop?

Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about. With all that's going on, how could I stop?

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies.And be it gash or gold it will not comeAgain in this identical disguise.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies.
And be it gash or gold it will not come
Again in this identical disguise.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.

She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: At a certain moment in social proceedings, I am on FIRE to leave: I have a leaving-FIT.

At a certain moment in social proceedings, I am on FIRE to leave: I have a leaving-FIT.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: Writing is a delicious agony.

Writing is a delicious agony.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.

Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: Life must be aromatic.There must be scent, somehow there must be some.

Life must be aromatic.
There must be scent, somehow there must be some.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: 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.

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.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: 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

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?

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.

Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: No man can give me any word but Wait ...

No man can give me any word but Wait ...

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.

Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: My last defense / Is the present tense.

My last defense / Is the present tense.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.

One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.

I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: I've always thought of myself as a reporter.

I've always thought of myself as a reporter.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.

With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.

Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: Each body has its art...

Each body has its art...

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: Be careful what you swallow. Chew!

Be careful what you swallow. Chew!

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: People are so in need, in need of help.People want so much that they do not know.

People are so in need, in need of help.
People want so much that they do not know.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.

It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.

This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.

I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.

Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: It is brave to be involved

It is brave to be involved

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: Do not be afraid of no,Who has so far, so very far to go.

Do not be afraid of no,
Who has so far, so very far to go.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: To be in loveIs to touch things with a lighter hand.In yourself you stretch, you are well.

To be in love
Is to touch things with a lighter hand.
In yourself you stretch, you are well.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: The poetry is myself.

The poetry is myself.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.

Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: 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.

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.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: What shall I give my children? who are poor, / Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land ...

What shall I give my children? who are poor, / Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land ...

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: Books are meat and medicineand flame and flight and flowersteel, stitch, cloud and clout,and drumbeats on the air.

Books are meat and medicine
and flame and flight and flower
steel, stitch, cloud and clout,
and drumbeats on the air.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration.

I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.

We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: 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.

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.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: There are no magics or elves / Or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must / Wizard a track through our own screaming weed.

There are no magics or elves / Or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must / Wizard a track through our own screaming weed.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.

I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.

$Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction ...$ It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction ...

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: 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.

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.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.

We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes: The music is in minors.

The music is in minors.