The music is in minors.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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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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I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.
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We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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And if sun comes how shall we greet him? shall we not dread him, shall we not fear him after so lengthy a session with shade?
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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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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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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