Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSPoetry is life distilled.
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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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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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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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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It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
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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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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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