It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSShe was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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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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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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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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It is brave to be involved.
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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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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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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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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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