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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Art hurts. Art urges voyages- and it is easier to stay at home.
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
To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
Gwendolyn Brooks
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.
Gwendolyn Brooks
When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
Gwendolyn Brooks
It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
Gwendolyn Brooks
We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Be careful what you swallow. Chew!
Gwendolyn Brooks
She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Poetry is life distilled.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Writing is a delicious agony.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Each body has its art.
Gwendolyn Brooks
What, what am I to do with all of this life?
Gwendolyn Brooks
As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
Gwendolyn Brooks
When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.
Gwendolyn Brooks
One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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
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