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There are 23 quotes for the author Gwendolyn Brooks

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Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

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

Poetry is life distilled.

We are each other's magnitude and bond.

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.

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?

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise.

It is brave to be involved To be not fearful to be unresolved.

I don't want to say that these poems have to be simple, but I want to clarify my language. I want these poems to be free. I want them to be direct without sacrificing the kinds of music, the picturemaking I've always been interested in.

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

The '40s and '50s were years of high poetincense; 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!

I've always thought of myself as a reporter.

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.

It helped me to have somebody tell me what he thought was wrong with my work, and then bounce the analysis back and forth.

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.

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

Be careful what you swallow. Chew!

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

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.

I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.

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