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.
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.
I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy. Gwendolyn Brooks
I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.
Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything. Gwendolyn Brooks
Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.
I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy. Gwendolyn Brooks
I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.
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.
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.
Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air. Gwendolyn Brooks
Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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.
Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise. Gwendolyn Brooks
Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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. Gwendolyn Brooks
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.
When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water. Gwendolyn Brooks
When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night. Gwendolyn Brooks
Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, "Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night." You will be right. For that is the hard home-run. Live not for battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song. Live in the along. Gwendolyn Brooks
Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, "Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night." You will be right. For that is the hard home-run. Live not for battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song. Live in the along.
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love. Gwendolyn Brooks
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
Born: June 7, 1917
Died: December 3, 2000
Profession: Poet
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