I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSThere can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
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The poetry is myself.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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