There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWhen you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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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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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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It is brave to be involved.
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The music is in minors.
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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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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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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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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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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 know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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What 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.
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