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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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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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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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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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Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
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The poetry is myself.
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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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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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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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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Exhaust the little moment / Soon it dies.
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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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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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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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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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