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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
Musician

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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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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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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We are each other's magnitude and bond.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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It is brave to be involved
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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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at a certain moment in social proceedings, I am on FIRE to leave: I have a leaving-FIT.
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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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The poetry is myself.
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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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Each body has its art.
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Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.
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My last defense / Is the present tense.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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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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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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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 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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