Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSExhaust the little moment soon it dies.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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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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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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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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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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The music is in minors.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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I don’t like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
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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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