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 BROOKSOne reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
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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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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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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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The poetry is myself.
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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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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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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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