Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
Gwendolyn BrooksRead
It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Being brave means engaging in life even when faced with uncertainty.
This quote by Gwendolyn Brooks emphasizes the importance of courage in participation, suggesting that it requires bravery to engage deeply in life's complexities. Being unafraid of uncertainty and unresolved situations allows individuals to fully experience and contribute to the world around them.
Themes
CourageInvolvementFearlessnessLifeUncertainty
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about community service, you might say, 'It is brave to be involved, as Gwendolyn Brooks reminds us.'
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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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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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A 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.
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I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration.
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