When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSOne reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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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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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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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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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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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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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
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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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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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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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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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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