Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWhen 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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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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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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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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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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Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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