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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.

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
Aromatic
Scent
Somehow
Must
Life

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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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The poetry is myself.
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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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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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
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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 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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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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My last defense / Is the present tense.
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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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Be careful what you swallow. Chew!
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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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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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Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night. You will be right. For that is the hard home-run. Live not for battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song. Live in the along.
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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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