It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSThe music is in minors.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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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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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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
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The music is in minors.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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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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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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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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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