Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSIt is brave to be involved.
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 know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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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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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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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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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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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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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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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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It is brave to be involved.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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