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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
Healing
Art
Body

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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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We are each other's magnitude and bond.
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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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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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Be careful what you swallow. Chew!
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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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The music is in minors.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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