Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSThere are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
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There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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It is brave to be involved.
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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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