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Gwendolyn Brooks

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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
Body
Healing
Art

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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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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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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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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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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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Exhaust the little moment / Soon it dies.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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It is brave to be involved
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Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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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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We are each other's magnitude and bond.
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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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Writing is a delicious agony.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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The poetry is myself.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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