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I like the concentration, the crush I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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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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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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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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My last defense / Is the present tense.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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The poetry is myself.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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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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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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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