Life for my child is simple, and is good.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWhen you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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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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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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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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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don’t pay attention ’cause it probably has floated into somebody else’s head.
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Each body has its art.
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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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