Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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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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The music is in minors.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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It is brave to be involved.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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What I’m fighting for now in my work… for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
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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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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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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