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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
Teacher
Writer
Topeka
Kansas
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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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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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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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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