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Each body has its art.

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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
Art
Body
Healing

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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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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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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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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 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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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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The music is in minors.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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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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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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My last defense / Is the present tense.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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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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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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