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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSDon’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.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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The poetry is myself.
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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 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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The music is in minors.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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