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Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.

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
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Poets

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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.
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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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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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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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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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The music is in minors.
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And if sun comes / How shall we greet him? / Shall we not dread him, / Shall we not fear him / After so lengthy a / Session with shade?
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My last defense / Is the present tense.
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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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We are each other's magnitude and bond.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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