When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
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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Writing is a delicious agony.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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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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The music is in minors.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
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Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
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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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