People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSDon’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.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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And if sun comes how shall we greet him? shall we not dread him, shall we not fear him after so lengthy a session with shade?
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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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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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I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don’t pay attention ’cause it probably has floated into somebody else’s head.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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The music is in minors.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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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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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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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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