Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - 2000)
Source: Black Poetry Writing, 1975.
Contributed by: Zaady
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.
Source: Report From Part One, 1972.
Be careful what you swallow. Chew!
Source: Advice to graduates, Buena Vista University Graduation, 1995
It is brave to be involved To be not fearful to be unresolved.
Source: "do not be afraid of no," Annie Allen, 1949.
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.
Source: Famous Black Quotations, ed. Janet Cheatham Bell, 1995.
We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
Source: "We ReaI CooI," The Bean Eaters, 1960.
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
Source: My Soul Looks Back, 'Less I Forget, by Dorothy Winbush Riley, 1995.
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