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Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes

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

Gwendolyn Brooks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: June 7, 1917 - December 3, 2000

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I Am Because Writer Am Perhaps

What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance.

Freedom Enjoy You Stage Texture Own

There was a time when Stefan Zweig was the most widely read author in the world. He was lionized everywhere, translated into every language. For the first four decades of the 20th century, his novellas and biographies were devoured by rich and poor, young and old, well read or less so.

Time World Rich Language Young Poor

Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

Meister Eckhart

God Man Door Far Away Hand Never

We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we cannot conceive of so much matter that our imagination will not stand upon the farthest star and see infinite space beyond.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Time Imagination Space Stand Matter

During the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the military conducted only a handful of drone missions.

Michael Hastings

Military Only Handful Invasion Iraq

There's a certain type of character that you can't help but come in contact with growing up and living in Brooklyn and Long Island. A certain mixture of moxie, heart, and a wise guy sense of humor.

Character Heart Humor Wise Help You

When I put on my Marine cover, I'm a Marine, and I act accordingly.

Act Cover Accordingly Marine Put

As long as there are dancers around who love to dance, there will be an Alvin Ailey American Dance Company. We miss him so much, but he's alive as soon as you see a dancer hit the stage.

Love Dance American Long You Alive

I've behaved badly in my life. I hope I haven't behaved as badly as Dickens! In a way, if you're a woman, you're not in a position to behave as badly, because you don't have the economic power.

Life Hope Power Woman My Life You

I love Back Stage. I have lots of theater friends and actors who depend on Back Stage.

Love Friends Back Depend Stage Who

Work on your craft, and your career will come. Work on your community, and your career will come. But just work on your career, and you'll have neither a craft nor a community.

Ali Farahnakian

Work Community You Career Will Just

Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Anger Strong Insurance Against

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