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.
Gwendolyn BrooksIt frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction.
Gwendolyn BrooksWhen 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.
Gwendolyn Brooks