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Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead Picture Quote #1

Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself Picture Quote #1

This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind Picture Quote #1

It is brave to be involved Picture Quote #1

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air Picture Quote #1

Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world Picture Quote #1

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What, what am I to do with all of this life? Picture Quote #1

She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves Picture Quote #1

One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers Picture Quote #1

Writing is a delicious agony Picture Quote #1

Believe me, I loved you all. Believe me, I knew you, though faintly, and I loved, I loved you all Picture Quote #1

Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world Picture Quote #1

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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words Picture Quote #1

What I’m fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project Picture Quote #1

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you Picture Quote #1

Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get Picture Quote #1

What shall I say, how is the truth to be said? You were born, you had body, you died. It is just that you never giggled or planned or cried Picture Quote #1

We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

... sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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? Picture Quote #1

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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead (Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes) Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself (Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes) This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind (Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes) It is brave to be involved (Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes) Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air (Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes) Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world (Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes) What, what am I to do with all of this life? (Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes) She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves (Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes) One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers (Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes) Writing is a delicious agony (Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes) Believe me, I loved you all. Believe me, I knew you, though faintly, and I loved, I loved you all (Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes) Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world (Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes) There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run (Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words (Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes) What I’m fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project (Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes) 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 Quotes) When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done (Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes) As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you (Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes) Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get (Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes) What shall I say, how is the truth to be said? You were born, you had body, you died. It is just that you never giggled or planned or cried (Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes) We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond (Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) ... sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore (Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes)

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