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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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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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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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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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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at a certain moment in social proceedings, I am on FIRE to leave: I have a leaving-FIT.
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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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My last defense / Is the present tense.
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The poetry is myself.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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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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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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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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Be careful what you swallow. Chew!
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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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Each body has its art.
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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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