"There are many writers who have influenced me and who I enjoy reading, but Lucille Clifton and Gwendolyn Brooks are at the top of the list."

-- Renee Watson

#Reading Quotes #Lists Quotes #Brooks Quotes

“If you wanted a safe job, go sell shoes. This is a tough business.”
“Self-image, the concept we have of ourselves, must begin not by looking in the mirror but by looking into the face of God.”
“You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.”
“The egos in this industry are incredibly vulnerable and everybody's afraid to wipe out. So everybody plays it safe and everybody tells everybody else how great they are.”
“You have to choose love ... in the most difficult of time to shift the paradigm to that which is love.”
“Talents, to strike the eye of posterity, should be concentrated. Rays, powerless while they are scattered, burn in a point.”

Source : Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.46
“When men I have dated over the years whined about, 'Oh, you make no time for me' - see ya! I just dumped them. I don't need that pressure in my life.”
“Ah, music, sacred tongue of God! I hear thee calling and I come.”

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