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The music is in minors.

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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
Minors
Musician
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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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The poetry is myself.
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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 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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Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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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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at a certain moment in social proceedings, I am on FIRE to leave: I have a leaving-FIT.
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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 think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.
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My last defense / Is the present tense.
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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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Exhaust the little moment / Soon it dies.
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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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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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It is brave to be involved
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We are each other's magnitude and bond.
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Be careful what you swallow. Chew!
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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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