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 poetry is myself.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
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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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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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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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The music is in minors.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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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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