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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSEven if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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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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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don’t pay attention ’cause it probably has floated into somebody else’s head.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress 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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Poetry is life distilled.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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