I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSDo not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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The poetry is myself.
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A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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I don’t like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
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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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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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