When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Writing is a delicious agony.
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I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.
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The poetry is myself.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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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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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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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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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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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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