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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
Novelist
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Topeka
Kansas
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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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The poetry is myself.
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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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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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Each body has its art.
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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 know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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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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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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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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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 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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When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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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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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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