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She was learning to love momen...

She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

What, what am I to do with all...

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

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

We are each other's harvest; w...

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

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

Books are meat and medicine an...

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

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

This is the urgency: Live! and...

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

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

I felt that I had to write. Ev...

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 96 quotes

Abortions will not let you for...

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

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

I who have gone the gamut from...

I who have gone the gamut from an almost angry rejection of my dark skin by some of my brainwashed brothers and sisters to a surprised queenhood in the new Black sunam qualified to enter at least the kindergarten of new consciousness now... I have hopes for myself.

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

A poem doesn't do everything f...

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

A writer should get as much ed...

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 96 quotes

We real cool. We Left school. ...

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 96 quotes

Even if you are not ready for ...

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

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

Be yourself. Don't imitate oth...

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

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

There can be no whiter whitene...

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

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

Good health is a duty to yours...

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

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

Art is a refining and evocativ...

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

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

We don't ask a flower any spec...

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 96 quotes

Do not desire to fit in. Desir...

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

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

First fight. Then fiddle....

First fight. Then fiddle.

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

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