When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSArt hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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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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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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Each body has its art.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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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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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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