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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
Begins
Goodness
Simply
Fact
Facts
Life

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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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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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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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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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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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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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