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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
Gwendolyn Brooks
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Gwendolyn Brooks
Age: 83 †
Born: 1917
Born: June 7
Died: 2000
Died: December 3
Novelist
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Topeka
Kansas
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
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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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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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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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