Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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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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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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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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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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There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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The music is in minors.
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