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Gwendolyn Brooks Quote: “Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.”

51. “Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.”

— Gwendolyn Brooks

Gwendolyn Brooks Quote: “I don’t want people running around saying Gwen Brooks’s work is intellectual. That makes people think instantly about obscurity. It shouldn’t have to mean that, but it often seems to.”

52. “I don’t want people running around saying Gwen Brooks’s work is intellectual. That makes people think instantly about obscurity. It shouldn’t have to mean that, but it often seems to.”

— Gwendolyn Brooks

Gwendolyn Brooks Quote: “The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the ’60s: Independent fire!”

53. “The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the ’60s: Independent fire!”

— Gwendolyn Brooks

Gwendolyn Brooks Quote: “We are each other’s magnitude and bond.”

54. “We are each other’s magnitude and bond.”

— Gwendolyn Brooks

Gwendolyn Brooks Quote: “The music is in minors.”

55. “The music is in minors.”

— Gwendolyn Brooks

Gwendolyn Brooks Quote: “When you read a poem, you may not get out of it all that the poet put into it, but you are different from the poet. You’re different from everybody else who is going to read the poem, so you should take from it what you need. Use it personally.”

56. “When you read a poem, you may not get out of it all that the poet put into it, but you are different from the poet. You’re different from everybody else who is going to read the poem, so you should take from it what you need. Use it personally.”

— Gwendolyn Brooks

Gwendolyn Brooks Quote: “There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.”

57. “There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.”

— Gwendolyn Brooks

Gwendolyn Brooks Quote: “But dandelions were what she chiefly saw. Yellow jewels for everyday studding the patched green dress of her back yard. She liked their demure prettiness second to their everydayness; for in that latter quality she thought she saw a picture of herself, and it was comforting to find that what was common could also be a flower.”

58. “But dandelions were what she chiefly saw. Yellow jewels for everyday studding the patched green dress of her back yard. She liked their demure prettiness second to their everydayness; for in that latter quality she thought she saw a picture of herself, and it was comforting to find that what was common could also be a flower.”

— Gwendolyn Brooks

Gwendolyn Brooks Quote: “I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don’t pay attention ’cause it probably has floated into somebody else’s head.”

59. “I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don’t pay attention ’cause it probably has floated into somebody else’s head.”

— Gwendolyn Brooks

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