When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWhat, what am I to do with all of this life?
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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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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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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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Each body has its art.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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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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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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It is brave to be involved.
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Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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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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