I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Each body has its art.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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The poetry is myself.
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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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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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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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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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It is brave to be involved.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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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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