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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the ’60s: Independent fire!
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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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The poetry is myself.
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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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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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