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> [When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gwendolyn-brooks/when-white-and-black-meet-today-sometimes-there-is-a-ready/)

[Gwendolyn Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gwendolyn-brooks/)

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## More by Gwendolyn Brooks

> [My last defense / Is the present tense.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gwendolyn-brooks/my-last-defense-is-the-present-tense/)

[Gwendolyn Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gwendolyn-brooks/)

> [Nothing could stop Mississippi.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gwendolyn-brooks/nothing-could-stop-mississippi/)

[Gwendolyn Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gwendolyn-brooks/)

> [Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gwendolyn-brooks/very-early-in-life-i-became-fascinated-with-the-wonders-language-can/)

[Gwendolyn Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gwendolyn-brooks/)

> [We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gwendolyn-brooks/we-real-cool-we-left-school-we-lurk-late-we-strike-straight-we-sing/)

[Gwendolyn Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gwendolyn-brooks/)

> [I've always thought of myself as a reporter. When people ask why I don't stop writing, I say, 'Look at what's happening in this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gwendolyn-brooks/i-ve-always-thought-of-myself-as-a-reporter-when-people-ask-why-i-don/)

[Gwendolyn Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gwendolyn-brooks/)

> [She was afraid to suggest to him that to most people, nothing "happens." That most people merely live from day to day until they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gwendolyn-brooks/she-was-afraid-to-suggest-to-him-that-to-most-people-nothing-happens/)

[Gwendolyn Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gwendolyn-brooks/)

> [A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gwendolyn-brooks/a-writer-should-get-as-much-education-as-possible-but-just-going-to/)

[Gwendolyn Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gwendolyn-brooks/)

> [Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gwendolyn-brooks/reading-is-important-read-between-the-lines-don-t-swallow-everything/)

[Gwendolyn Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gwendolyn-brooks/)

> [No man can give me any word but Wait.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gwendolyn-brooks/no-man-can-give-me-any-word-but-wait/)

[Gwendolyn Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gwendolyn-brooks/)

> [The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gwendolyn-brooks/the-forties-and-fifties-were-years-of-high-poet-incense-the-language/)

[Gwendolyn Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gwendolyn-brooks/)

> [It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gwendolyn-brooks/it-frightens-me-to-realize-that-if-i-had-died-before-the-age-of-fifty/)

[Gwendolyn Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gwendolyn-brooks/)

> [One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gwendolyn-brooks/one-reason-cats-are-happier-than-people-is-that-they-have-no/)

[Gwendolyn Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gwendolyn-brooks/)

> [We are each other's magnitude and bond.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gwendolyn-brooks/we-are-each-other-s-magnitude-and-bond/)

[Gwendolyn Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gwendolyn-brooks/)

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gwendolyn-brooks/what-i-m-fighting-for-now-in-my-work-for-an-expression-relevant-to/)

[Gwendolyn Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gwendolyn-brooks/)

> [And if sun comes / How shall we greet him? / Shall we not dread him, / Shall we not fear him / After…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gwendolyn-brooks/and-if-sun-comes-how-shall-we-greet-him-shall-we-not-dread-him-shall/)

[Gwendolyn Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gwendolyn-brooks/)

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