It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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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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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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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the ’60s: Independent fire!
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Each body has its art.
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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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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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