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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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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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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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The music is in minors.
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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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Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
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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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It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction.
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Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.
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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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We are each other's magnitude and bond.
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I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry. ... I still do feel that a poet has a duty to words, and that words can do wonderful things, and it's too bad to just let them lie there without doing anything with and for them.
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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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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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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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I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.
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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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