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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.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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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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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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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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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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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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$Gwendolyn Brooks Quote - It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.$

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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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
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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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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!
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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