The music is in minors.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
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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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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.
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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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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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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
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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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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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