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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.
Gwendolyn Brooks
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Gwendolyn Brooks
Age: 83 †
Born: 1917
Born: June 7
Died: 2000
Died: December 3
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Topeka
Kansas
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
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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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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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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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My last defense / Is the present tense.
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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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Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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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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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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Each body has its art.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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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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Writing is a delicious agony.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
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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 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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