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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?
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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Topeka
Kansas
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
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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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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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The music is in minors.
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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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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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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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Exhaust the little moment / Soon it dies.
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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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