Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 7, 1917 - December 3, 2000

Topics

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At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn't expecting it.

Jimmy Buffett

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The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.

Robert Morgan

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The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest.

Steven Brust

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I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway.

Shimon Peres

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Liberty is the most precious gift we offer our citizens.

Tom Ridge

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Throughout human history, people have developed strong loyalties to traditions, rituals, and symbols. In the most effective organizations, they are not only respected but celebrated. It is no coincidence that the most highly admired corporations are also among the most profitable.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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I went to art school first and thought that I'm going to design theater sets. That was my path.

Ron Ben-Israel

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Despite what you hear in the news from the Obama administration and the military, our strategy of conducting infrequent airstrikes and re-taking pockets of Iraq and Syria terrain will only help us achieve short-lived tactical victories.

Michael T. Flynn

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Nobody works harder than me in the ring; no one steals the show more often, and no one gets better reactions for a guy who's not even part of huge storylines.

Dolph Ziggler

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As for when to reform the yuan, there is no timetable yet.

Wu Yi

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Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self.

Priscilla Presley

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I love the NFL. Everything that I really have is because of the NFL... but every idea that the NFL pitched is not a great idea.

Shannon Sharpe

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