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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
Gwendolyn Brooks
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Gwendolyn Brooks
Age: 83 †
Born: 1917
Born: June 7
Died: 2000
Died: December 3
Novelist
Poet
Teacher
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Topeka
Kansas
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
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Each body has its art.
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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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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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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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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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