"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."
- Gwendolyn Brooks
Belief in Self
"We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond."
- Gwendolyn Brooks
Connection to Earth
"One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers."
- Gwendolyn Brooks
Contentment
"A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers."
- Gwendolyn Brooks
Education
""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 for ourselves.""
- Gwendolyn Brooks
Philosophy
"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."
- Maya Angelou
Creativity
"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."
- Jamie Paolinetti
Creativity
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
- Herman Melville
Creativity
"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."
- Oscar Wilde
Creativity
"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."
- Isabel Allende
Creativity