Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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Poetry is life distilled.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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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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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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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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When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
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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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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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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It is brave to be involved.
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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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