Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Each body has its art.
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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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The poetry is myself.
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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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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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The music is in minors.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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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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