I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry. ... I still do feel that a poet has a duty to words, and that words can do wonderful things, and it's too bad to just let them lie there without doing anything with and for them.
Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go. - Gwendolyn Brooks
Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
- Gwendolyn Brooks
Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything. - Gwendolyn Brooks
Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.
This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind. - Gwendolyn Brooks
This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond. - Gwendolyn Brooks
We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.
Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself. - Gwendolyn Brooks
Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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. - Gwendolyn Brooks
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.
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. - Gwendolyn Brooks
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.
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars. - Gwendolyn Brooks
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead. - Gwendolyn Brooks
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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