I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
Quotes by Gwendolyn Brooks
We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.
It is brave to be involved To be not fearful to be unresolved.
Be careful what you swallow. Chew!
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.
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.

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