The music is in minors.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI 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.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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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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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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It is brave to be involved.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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 think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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