Gwendolyn Brooks

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

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We are each other's magnitude and bond. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

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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. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

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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. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

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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. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

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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. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

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Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

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