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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
Writer
Topeka
Kansas
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
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Exhaust the little moment / Soon it dies.
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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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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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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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A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
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Each body has its art.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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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