Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PeopleYouMinoritySomebodyThan

Managers are trained to make incremental, programmatic improvements. They aren't trained to lead large-scale change.

John P. Kotter

ChangeLeadMakeIncrementalTrained

Almost every time we get together with family or friends, the conversation ends up being about food.

Steve Chen

FamilyTimeFoodTogetherFriends

When I'm not the Tiger Mom, I'm a professor at Yale Law School, and if one thing is clear to me from years of teaching, it's that there are many ways to produce fabulous kids. I have amazing students; some of them have strict parents, others have lenient parents, and many come from family situations that defy easy description.

Amy Chua

FamilySchoolParentsAmazingMom

I'm always pursuing the next dream, hunting for the next truth.

Stanley Kramer

TruthDreamHuntingAlwaysNext

There are times when you need to pitch a fit and other times when you need to apply Catholic guilt, and it's just figuring out which is the most appropriate approach and then implementing it.

Lisa Murkowski

GuiltYouNeedOutJustApply

I have a big following on Twitter, and Twitter has been invaluable for mobilizing and quickly sharing information. But I'm not really sure that people are learning deep content on Twitter.

DeRay Mckesson

LearningPeopleDeepInformationBig

There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance now.

Peter Jackson

Black And WhiteChildrenGeneration

Like the invention of the printing press before it, the Internet has been the greatest instrumentality of free speech and the exchange of ideas in the history of mankind.

Scott Pruitt

HistoryIdeasFreeInternetSpeech

It's nice to know to I have friends that truly support and believe in me, and to go back home and see those that knew me before all this happened.

Tiffany Hwang

HomeSupportMeBelieveFriendsGo

I have had a lot of crushes but have never had the courage to go up to a girl and say what I feel. I am scared of rejection.

Tiger Shroff

GirlCourageI AmFeelRejectionGo

A weak America poses a threat to the future of Israel.

Norman Braman

FutureAmericaWeakIsraelThreat

One day, the people who work in my kitchen stir-fried chopped Napa cabbage to serve with some meat or fish for their own dinner. I got to thinking: 'What if the cabbage was the most important thing on the plate?'

Nobu Matsuhisa

WorkDayPeopleDinnerThinking

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