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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
Novelist
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Topeka
Kansas
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
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Life
Begins
Goodness
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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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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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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We are each other's magnitude and bond.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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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Exhaust the little moment / Soon it dies.
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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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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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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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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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