It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSIt is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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 don’t like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
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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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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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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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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
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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 is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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