Quote #10

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

More from Gwendolyn Brooks

  1. Be careful what you swallow. Chew!
  2. To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
  3. Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
  4. He is not there but You know you are tasting together The winter, or a light spring weather. His hand to take your hand is overmuch. Too mu…
  5. As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
  6. I shall not sing a May song. A May song should be gay. I'll wait until November And sing a song of gray.
  7. 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 in…
  8. And all the little people Will stare at me and say, 'That is the Crazy Woman Who would not sing in May.'

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