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Writing is a delicious agony.

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
Agony
Delicious
Writing

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Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night. You will be right. For that is the hard home-run. Live not for battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song. Live in the along.
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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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Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.
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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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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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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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