I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSLife must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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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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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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The music is in minors.
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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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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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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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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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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