Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSA 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.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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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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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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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.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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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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