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I was reading Carl Sandburg and Gwendolyn Brooks, and I'm still very, very deeply moved by Gwendolyn Brooks's life and her work. — Sandra Cisneros

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

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

Nothing could stop Mississippi. — Gwendolyn Brooks

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

Poetry is life distilled. — Gwendolyn Brooks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Writing is a delicious agony. — Gwendolyn Brooks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. — Gwendolyn Brooks

My last defense / Is the present tense. — Gwendolyn Brooks

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

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

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

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

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

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

Each body has its art... — Gwendolyn Brooks

Be careful what you swallow. Chew! — Gwendolyn Brooks

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is brave to be involved — Gwendolyn Brooks

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

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

The poetry is myself. — Gwendolyn Brooks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The music is in minors. — Gwendolyn Brooks