I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWe are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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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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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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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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Each body has its art.
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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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The music is in minors.
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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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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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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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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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