No man can give me any word but Wait.
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 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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Writing is a delicious agony.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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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 am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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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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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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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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