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The music is in minors.

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
Music
Minors
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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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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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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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I like the concentration, the crush I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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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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Writing is a delicious agony.
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My last defense / Is the present tense.
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Each body has its art.
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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 think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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The poetry is myself.
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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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Be careful what you swallow. Chew!
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at a certain moment in social proceedings, I am on FIRE to leave: I have a leaving-FIT.
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