I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSBeware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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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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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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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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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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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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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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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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