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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
Gwendolyn Brooks
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Gwendolyn Brooks
Age: 83 †
Born: 1917
Born: June 7
Died: 2000
Died: December 3
Novelist
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Topeka
Kansas
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
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When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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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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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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What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
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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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The poetry is myself.
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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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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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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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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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My last defense / Is the present tense.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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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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