Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSNo man can give me any word but Wait.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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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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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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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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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What I’m fighting for now in my work… for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
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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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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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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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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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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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