I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
When 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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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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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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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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The poetry is myself.
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Each body has its art.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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