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

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• 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.

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• 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

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• Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.

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• First fight. Then fiddle.

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• 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?

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• I’ve always thought of myself as a reporter.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

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

  Gwendolyn Brooks

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• We are each other’s magnitude and bond.

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

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• 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

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• Poetry is life distilled.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

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• Live not for Battles Won.
  Live not for The-End-of-the-Song.
  Live in the along.

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• Writing is a delicious agony.

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

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• 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

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

  Gwendolyn Brooks

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

  Gwendolyn Brooks

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Gwendolyn Brooks (18)

Birth:	7th June, 1917
Death:	3rd December, 2000
Nationality:	African, American
Profession:	Poet

About

Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was born on June 7, 1917, in Topeka, Kansas, the first child of David Anderson Brooks and Keziah Wims. Her mother was a former school teacher who had chosen that field because she could not afford to attend medical school. When Brooks was six weeks old, her family moved to Chicago, Illinois during the Great Migration; from then on, Chicago was her hometown. She went by the nickname "Gwendie" among her close friends.

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