I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSArt hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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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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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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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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The music is in minors.
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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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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
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