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Gwendolyn Brooks
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Gwendolyn Brooks
Age: 83 †
Born: 1917
Born: June 7
Died: 2000
Died: December 3
Novelist
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Topeka
Kansas
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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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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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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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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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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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The poetry is myself.
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We are each other's magnitude and bond.
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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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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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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Each body has its art.
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I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry. ... I still do feel that a poet has a duty to words, and that words can do wonderful things, and it's too bad to just let them lie there without doing anything with and for them.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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