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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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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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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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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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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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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It is brave to be involved
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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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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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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And if sun comes / How shall we greet him? / Shall we not dread him, / Shall we not fear him / After so lengthy a / Session with shade?
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Exhaust the little moment / Soon it dies.
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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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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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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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Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
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My last defense / Is the present tense.
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