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The poetry is myself.

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
Poetry

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Poetry is life distilled.
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My last defense / Is the present tense.
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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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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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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 think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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I like the concentration, the crush I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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