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It is brave to be involved To be not fearful to be unresolved.
Gwendolyn BrooksArt hurts. Art urges voyages and it is easier to stay at home.
Gwendolyn BrooksTruth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
Gwendolyn BrooksExhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise.
Gwendolyn BrooksWhen I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
Gwendolyn BrooksA 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 BrooksAs you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
Gwendolyn BrooksArt is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
Gwendolyn BrooksBe careful what you swallow. Chew!
Gwendolyn BrooksI am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
Gwendolyn BrooksI am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
Gwendolyn BrooksTo be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
Gwendolyn BrooksI shall not sing a May song. A May song should be gay. I'll wait until November And sing a song of gray.
Gwendolyn BrooksAnd all the little people Will stare at me and say, "That is the Crazy Woman Who would not sing in May."
Gwendolyn BrooksI hold my honey and I store my bread In little jars and cabinets of my will. I label clearly, and each latch and lid I bid, Be firm till I return from hell.
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Gwendolyn Brooksconsider the big fists breaking your little bones, or consider the vague bureaucrats stumbling, fumbling through Paper.
Gwendolyn BrooksIs earnest enough, may earnest attract or lead to light; Is light enough, if hands in clumsy frenzy, flimsy whimsically, enlist; Is light enough when this bewilderment crying against the dark shuts down the shades? Dilute confusion. Find and explode our mist.
Gwendolyn Brooks