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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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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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at a certain moment in social proceedings, I am on FIRE to leave: I have a leaving-FIT.
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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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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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Writing is a delicious agony.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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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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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 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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Be careful what you swallow. Chew!
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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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The poetry is myself.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
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Each body has its art.
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