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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
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Topeka
Kansas
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
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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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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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Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
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We are each other's magnitude and bond.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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It is brave to be involved
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Be careful what you swallow. Chew!
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I don't like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
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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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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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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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