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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
Writer
Topeka
Kansas
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
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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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Writing is a delicious agony.
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Exhaust the little moment / Soon it dies.
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The music is in minors.
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Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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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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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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Each body has its art.
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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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I've always thought of myself as a reporter. When people ask why I don't stop writing, I say, `Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about.’ With all that's going on, how could I stop?
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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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