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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
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Topeka
Kansas
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
Chew
Swallow
Careful

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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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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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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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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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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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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