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We are each other's harvest; ...

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

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A poem doesn't do everything ...

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.

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

I've always thought of myself...

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?

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

People are so in need, in nee...

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

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

I don't want people running a...

I don't want people running around saying Gwen Brooks's work is intellectual. That makes people think instantly about obscurity. It shouldn't have to mean that, but it often seems to.

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

... sometimes you have to dea...

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

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

Do not desire to fit in. Desi...

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

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

I don't like the idea of the ...

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 96 quotes

This is the urgency: Live! an...

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

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

Be careful what you swallow. ...

Be careful what you swallow. Chew!

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

I tell poets that when a line...

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 96 quotes

Say to them, say to the down-...

Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, "Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night." You will be right. For that is the hard home-run. Live not for battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song. Live in the along.

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

I believe we should all know ...

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.

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

The forties and fifties were ...

The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the '60s: Independent fire!

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

Be yourself. Don't imitate ot...

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

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

And if sun comes / How shall ...

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 96 quotes

I am an ordinary human being ...

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.

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

When white and black meet tod...

When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

It frightens me to realize th...

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

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

Do not be afraid of no,
Who ...

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

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

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