Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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She was afraid to suggest to him that to most people, nothing "happens." That most people merely live from day to day until they die. That, after he had been dead a year, doubtless fewer than five people would think of him oftener than once a year. That there might even come a year when no one on earth would think of him at all.
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I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.
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Be careful what you swallow. Chew!
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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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First fight. Then fiddle.
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Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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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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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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There are no magics or elves / Or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must / Wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
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Exhaust the little moment / Soon it dies.
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I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry. ... I still do feel that a poet has a duty to words, and that words can do wonderful things, and it's too bad to just let them lie there without doing anything with and for them.
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The poetry is myself.
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Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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The civil rights situation is like a pregnancy. It will get worse, I believe, before it gets better. What the usual pregnancy comes to is a decent baby. That is what we all hope will be the end product of this stress. It is customary, at the end of a pregnancy, to have for your pains a decent baby.
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... sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
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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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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A poem doesn't do everything for you. You are supposed to go on with your thinking. You are supposed to enrich the other person's poem with your extensions, your uniquely personal understandings, thus making the poem serve you.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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I've always thought of myself as a reporter. When people ask why I don't stop writing, I say, `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?
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I've always thought of myself as a reporter.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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The music is in minors.
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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man's shirt on its morning run.
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