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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
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The music is in minors.
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Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.
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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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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
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Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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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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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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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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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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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.
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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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The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the '60s: Independent fire!
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