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• I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Crush, Clay, Language

  Gwendolyn Brooks, Gloria Jean Wade Gayles (2003). “Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.25, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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

  Language, Wonder, Achieve

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• ... sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Men, Order, Swim

  Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.40, Library of America

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• 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

  Happiness, Fear, Sun

  Gwendolyn Brooks (1971). “The world of Gwendolyn Brooks”, Harpercollins

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

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Wheat, Aging

  "Report From Part One". Book by Gwendolyn Brooks, 1972.

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• 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

  Race, Ideas, Black

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• I think it must be lonely to be God.
  Nobody loves a master. No.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  God, Lonely, Loneliness

  Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.30, Library of America

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

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Clumsiness, Talkers

  Gwendolyn Brooks, Gloria Jean Wade Gayles (2003). “Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.21, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Mean, Speech, Clumsiness

  Gwendolyn Brooks, Gloria Jean Wade Gayles (2003). “Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.21, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Love Is, Hands, Wells

  Gwendolyn Brooks (1963). “Selected poems”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Racism, Age, Fifty

  Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.20, Library of America

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• When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Writing, Thinking, Done

  Gwendolyn Brooks, Gloria Jean Wade Gayles (2003). “Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.44, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Do not be afraid of no,
  Who has so far, so very far to go.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.56, Library of America

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• I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don't pay attention 'cause it probably has floated into somebody else's head.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Poetry, Lines, Pay

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• beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Grief, Fuel, Fool

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• Life must be aromatic.
  There must be scent, somehow there must be some.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Life, Scent

  Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.17, Library of America

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• With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Jewels, Opal, Pearls

  Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.55, Library of America

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• There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man's shirt on its morning run.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Running, Morning, Men

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• I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Holes, Notes, Ifs

  Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.106, Library of America

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• I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Grief, Mind, All Time

  Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.48, Library of America

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• 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

  Brother, Dark, Rejection

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• She was afraid to suggest to him that to most people, nothing "happens." That most people merely live from day to day until they die. That, after he had been dead a year, doubtless fewer than five people would think of him oftener than once a year. That there might even come a year when no one on earth would think of him at all.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Thinking, Years, People

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• The music is in minors.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Music, Musician, Music Is

  Gwendolyn Brooks (1971). “The world of Gwendolyn Brooks”, Harpercollins

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• People are so in need, in need of help.
  People want so much that they do not know.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  People, Needs, Want

  Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.36, Library of America

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• Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Children, Abortion, Remember

  "the mother" l. 1 (1945)

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