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Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.
Gwendolyn Brooks
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Gwendolyn Brooks
Age: 83 †
Born: 1917
Born: June 7
Died: 2000
Died: December 3
Novelist
Poet
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Topeka
Kansas
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
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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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Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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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 know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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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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We are each other's magnitude and bond.
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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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at a certain moment in social proceedings, I am on FIRE to leave: I have a leaving-FIT.
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Be careful what you swallow. Chew!
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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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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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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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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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