I don’t like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSArt hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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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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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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The music is in minors.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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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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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don’t pay attention ’cause it probably has floated into somebody else’s head.
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