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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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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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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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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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The music is in minors.
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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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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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It is brave to be involved
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We are each other's magnitude and bond.
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My last defense / Is the present tense.
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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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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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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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Exhaust the little moment / Soon it dies.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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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Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.
Gwendolyn Brooks