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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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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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Writing is a delicious agony.
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We are each other's magnitude and bond.
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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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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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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Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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