The music is in minors.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWhat I’m fighting for now in my work… for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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It is brave to be involved.
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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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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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