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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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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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My last defense / Is the present tense.
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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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at a certain moment in social proceedings, I am on FIRE to leave: I have a leaving-FIT.
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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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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Exhaust the little moment / Soon it dies.
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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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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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It is brave to be involved
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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 music is in minors.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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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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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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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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