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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.

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
Moments
Love
Learning

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The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the '60s: Independent fire!
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Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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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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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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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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The music is in minors.
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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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Writing is a delicious agony.
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I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry. ... I still do feel that a poet has a duty to words, and that words can do wonderful things, and it's too bad to just let them lie there without doing anything with and for them.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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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 think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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My last defense / Is the present tense.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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We are each other's magnitude and bond.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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