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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.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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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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It is brave to be involved.
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The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the ’60s: Independent fire!
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$Gwendolyn Brooks Quote - It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.$

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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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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The music is in minors.
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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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Food Growth Old Yourself
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Chocolate Preference Truth
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Brave Desire Inspirational Leadership
When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
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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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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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The poetry is myself.
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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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