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 BROOKSLife for my child is simple, and is good.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Each body has its art.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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The poetry is myself.
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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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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