When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSDo not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
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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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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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The poetry is myself.
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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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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