Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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 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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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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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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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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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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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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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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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 know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
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The music is in minors.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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