Poetry is life distilled.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSIt is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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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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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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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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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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It is brave to be involved.
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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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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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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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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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