When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
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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I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
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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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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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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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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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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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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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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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And if sun comes how shall we greet him? shall we not dread him, shall we not fear him after so lengthy a session with shade?
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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.
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We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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