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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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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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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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Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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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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