As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSBooks are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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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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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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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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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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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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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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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
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