When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSThis is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Each body has its art.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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 is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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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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