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"32 Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 7 June 1917. Died: 3 December 2000 | Poet | Author | Teacher |

Writing is a delicious agony.

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

Reading Important Lines Everything
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Poetry is life distilled.

Poetry Life Distilled
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.

She Learning Love Moments
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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.

Books Flame Flower Cloud
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

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

Life Language Achieve Words
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I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration.

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

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

Minority People Reference Less
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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 disguise.

Exhaust Moment Gold Identical
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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The End of the Song. Live in the along.
Live Battles Won Song
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We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond

We Harvest Business Bond
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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.

Like Idea Race Existence
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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

Writing Poem Think World
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

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

Good health Duty Progress World
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.

Interested Particular Truth
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.

Brave Involved Fearful Unresolved
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.

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

People Need Help Want
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.

Goodness Begins Fact Life
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world

Art Refining Materials World
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sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.

Deal Devisly Men Shore
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I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.

Believe Human Doubt Destroy
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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.

Poem Thinking Person's Serve
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Truth Palatable Preference
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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.

Think Things Long Healthy
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First fight. Then fiddle.

First Fight Fiddle
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

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

Older Wheat Chaff Meet
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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.

Writer Education School Inspired
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Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes & Sayings