When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSBeware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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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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The music is in minors.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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It is brave to be involved.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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