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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
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Topeka
Kansas
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
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Exhaust the little moment / Soon it dies.
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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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at a certain moment in social proceedings, I am on FIRE to leave: I have a leaving-FIT.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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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.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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.
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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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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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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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I like the concentration, the crush I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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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.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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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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The poetry is myself.
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Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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I don't like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
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