This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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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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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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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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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The poetry is myself.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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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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