When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
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The music is in minors.
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