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Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
Gwendolyn Brooks
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Gwendolyn Brooks
Age: 83 †
Born: 1917
Born: June 7
Died: 2000
Died: December 3
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Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
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Exhaust the little moment / Soon it dies.
Gwendolyn Brooks
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
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
Poetry is life distilled.
Gwendolyn Brooks
She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
Gwendolyn Brooks
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
It is brave to be involved
Gwendolyn Brooks
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
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
My last defense / Is the present tense.
Gwendolyn Brooks
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
