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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWe real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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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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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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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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A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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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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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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