Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Therefore, our fight must primarily be a political mass struggle with revolutionary goals.

Joe Slovo

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Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.

Jerry Saltz

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And, of course, supernatural elements just make a story more interesting.

John Foster

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My plan is, I'm in the process of creating a production company called Tall Girls productions. I want to be doing both film and television. I'll never leave television. I just love working in it too much.

Melissa Rosenberg

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I think anybody has - regardless of your gender, we all have equal value. If you have value to bring and value to provide, you just have to be willing to use your voice.

Stephanie McMahon

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I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.

Stieg Larsson

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The more we look at drug resistance, the more concerned we are. It basically shows us that the end of the road isn't very far away for antibiotics.

Tom Frieden

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The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.

Ronnie Barker

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Cape Town is beautiful. It's an extraordinary beach town with mountain ranges on either side.

Michael O'Keefe

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Historically, Islam was hijacked about 20 or 30 years after the Prophet and interpreted in such a way that the ruler has absolute power and is accountable only to God. That, of course, was a very convenient interpretation for whoever was the ruler.

Mohamed ElBaradei

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I grew up playing classical violin and a lot of Bach and Mozart and the things that Einstein loved.

Johnny Flynn

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That was a surprise. I just had wished that Wil Wheaton was there. He was missing from the last show and it would have been nice if everyone could have been there.

Denise Crosby

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