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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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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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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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Exhaust the little moment / Soon it dies.
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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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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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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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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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Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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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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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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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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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Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.
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It is brave to be involved
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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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Writing is a delicious agony.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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