American - Poet | June 7, 1917 - December 3, 2000
We are each other's magnitude and bond.
Gwendolyn Brooks
BondOtherEachMagnitude
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.
LoveWaterSkyManBlueSweet
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.
BlackYouGroupHispanicBelong
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
I AmBecauseWriterAmPerhaps
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.
WorkFightingNowStreetProject
Poetry is life distilled.
LifePoetryDistilled
When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.
PeopleYouMinoritySomebodyThan
I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
ChallengeWritingGoNeverWrite
Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise.
MomentGoldWillLittleComeAgain
Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
HomeArtStayEasierHurtsUrges
Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
LifeWordsLanguageEarlyAchieve
I've always thought of myself as a reporter.
MyselfThoughtAlwaysReporter
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