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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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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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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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We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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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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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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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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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 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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