When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSThe forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the ’60s: Independent fire!
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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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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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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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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And if sun comes how shall we greet him? shall we not dread him, shall we not fear him after so lengthy a session with shade?
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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The music is in minors.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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What I’m fighting for now in my work… for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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