People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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