It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
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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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Writing is a delicious agony.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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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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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 love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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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 music is in minors.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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