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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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Each body has its art.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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We are each other's magnitude and bond.
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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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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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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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Be careful what you swallow. Chew!
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I who have gone the gamut from an almost angry rejection of my dark skin by some of my brainwashed brothers and sisters to a surprised queenhood in the new Black sunam qualified to enter at least the kindergarten of new consciousness now... I have hopes for myself.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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