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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
Gwendolyn Brooks
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Gwendolyn Brooks
Age: 83 †
Born: 1917
Born: June 7
Died: 2000
Died: December 3
Novelist
Poet
Teacher
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Topeka
Kansas
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Be careful what you swallow. Chew!
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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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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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We are each other's magnitude and bond.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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