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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.
Gwendolyn Brooks
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Gwendolyn Brooks
Age: 83 †
Born: 1917
Born: June 7
Died: 2000
Died: December 3
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Topeka
Kansas
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
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Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night. You will be right. For that is the hard home-run. Live not for battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song. Live in the along.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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I who have gone the gamut from an almost angry rejection of my dark skin by some of my brainwashed brothers and sisters to a surprised queenhood in the new Black sunam qualified to enter at least the kindergarten of new consciousness now... I have hopes for myself.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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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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Be careful what you swallow. Chew!
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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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Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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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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The music is in minors.
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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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Each body has its art.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
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