We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSLife for my child is simple, and is good.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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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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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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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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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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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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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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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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It is brave to be involved.
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