FridayApr 25, 2025
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Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 - December 3, 2000) was an African American poet.
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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.
Be careful what you swallow. Chew!
It is brave to be involved To be not fearful to be unresolved.
Poetry is life distilled.
Reading is important read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.
As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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