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Quotes by Gwendolyn Brooks

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

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - 2000)
Source: My Soul Looks Back, 'Less I Forget, by Dorothy Winbush Riley, 1995.
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We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - 2000)
Source: "We ReaI CooI," The Bean Eaters, 1960.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - 2000)
Source: Famous Black Quotations, ed. Janet Cheatham Bell, 1995.
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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 (1917 - 2000)
Source: Report From Part One, 1972.
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Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - 2000)
 
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Poetry is life distilled.

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - 2000)
 
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It is brave to be involved To be not fearful to be unresolved.

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - 2000)
Source: "do not be afraid of no," Annie Allen, 1949.
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Be careful what you swallow. Chew!

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - 2000)
Source: Advice to graduates, Buena Vista University Graduation, 1995
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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.

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - 2000)
Source: Report From Part One, 1972.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - 2000)
Source: Black Poetry Writing, 1975.
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