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"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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"The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal."
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"You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful."
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"As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient."
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"I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold."
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"I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch."
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"Frank Marth also played many characters with us, and like George Petrie, he was worth his weight in gold."
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"Even when I was very depressed, I could hold on to something. It seems that I have always had that streak of gold that I could hold on to."
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"I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal."
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"Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity."
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"The only way I'm going to win a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint."
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Explore more quotes by Gwendolyn Brooks
"First fight. Then fiddle."
Fight
"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."
Education
"I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge."
Challenge
"I've always thought of myself as a reporter."
Thought
"Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about. With all that's going on, how could I stop?"
Knowledge
"Poetry is life distilled."
Life
"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, into the street, into the halls of a housing project."
Work
"When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else."
People
"When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water."
Love
"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."
Ethnicity
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