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Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes: Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
         

Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.


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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.



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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.

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.

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.



We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

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.

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.



I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.

I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.



Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

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.

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.

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





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