Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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 think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
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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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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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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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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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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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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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It is brave to be involved.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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