“Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.”
Source: The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
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“I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration.”
Source: The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
Source: The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
“Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.”
“Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.”
Source: The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
“I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.”
Source: Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks
“We are each other's magnitude and bond.”
Source: The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
Source: Young Poet's Primer
Source: Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks
“Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.”
“To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.”
Source: Selected poems
“One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.”
“She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.”
Source: The world of Gwendolyn Brooks
“What, what am I to do with all of this life?”
Source: The world of Gwendolyn Brooks
“We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.”
Source: The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
Source: The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
“It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.”
Source: The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
Source: The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
“With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.”
Source: The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
“I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.”
“Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.”
Source: Gottschalk and the grande tarantelle
“Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.”
Source: In Montgomery, and Other Poems
Source: Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks
“This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.”
Source: The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
“Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.”
“Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.”
“Nothing could stop Mississippi.”
Source: The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
“There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man's shirt on its morning run.”
Source: Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks
Source: Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks