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Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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Gwendolyn Brooks
Age: 83 †
Born: 1917
Born: June 7
Died: 2000
Died: December 3
Novelist
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Topeka
Kansas
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
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My last defense / Is the present tense.
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Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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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 world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about.’ With all that's going on, how could I stop?
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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The poetry is myself.
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I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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And if sun comes / How shall we greet him? / Shall we not dread him, / Shall we not fear him / After so lengthy a / Session with shade?
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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.
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It is brave to be involved
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I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry. ... I still do feel that a poet has a duty to words, and that words can do wonderful things, and it's too bad to just let them lie there without doing anything with and for them.
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Be careful what you swallow. Chew!
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It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction.
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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.
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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, to find them lovable. Then the '60s: Independent fire!
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