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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
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Teacher
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Topeka
Kansas
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
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We are each other's magnitude and bond.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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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Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.
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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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My last defense / Is the present tense.
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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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What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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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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