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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.
Gwendolyn Brooks
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Gwendolyn Brooks
Age: 83 †
Born: 1917
Born: June 7
Died: 2000
Died: December 3
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Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
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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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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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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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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 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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Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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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.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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