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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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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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at a certain moment in social proceedings, I am on FIRE to leave: I have a leaving-FIT.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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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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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 music is in minors.
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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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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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We are each other's magnitude and bond.
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