Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSPeople are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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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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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Writing is a delicious agony.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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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Each body has its art.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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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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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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