Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSExhaust the little moment soon it dies.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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And if sun comes how shall we greet him? shall we not dread him, shall we not fear him after so lengthy a session with shade?
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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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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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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It is brave to be involved.
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What I’m fighting for now in my work… for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
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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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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Each body has its art.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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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The music is in minors.
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