The 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!
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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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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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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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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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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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The music is in minors.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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It is brave to be involved.
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