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Gwendolyn Brooks

Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an American poet, author, and teacher. Her work often dealt with the personal celebrations and struggles of ordinary people in her community. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on May 1, 1950, for Annie Allen making her the first African American to receive the Pulitzer.

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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

Clumsiness, Talkers, Writer, Talker, Perhaps

People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.

People, Needs, Want, Help, Know

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

Minorities, People, Reference, Use

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.

Blue, Love, Men, Recedes, Sweet

To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.

Hands, Love, Love Is, Things, Touch, Wells

First fight. Then fiddle.

Fiddle, Fight, Fighting, Firsts

This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.

Blooming, Life, Live, Noise, Whirlwind

As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.

Wheat, Aging, Disentangling, Chaff, Meet

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

Achieve, Became, Language, Wonder, Words

I who have gone the gamut from an almost angry rejection of my dark skin by some of my brainwashed brothers and sisters to a surprised queenhood in the new Black sunam qualified to enter at least the kindergarten of new consciousness now. . . I have hopes for myself.

Brother, Dark, Gone, Rejection, Surprised

We are each other's magnitude and bond.

Bond, Bridal Shower, Magnitude, Ties, Wedding Toast

Each body has its art.

Art, Healing, Body

Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.

Duty, Good Health, Health, Progress, World

No man can give me any word but Wait.

Give, Giving, Men, Wait, Waiting, Word

I shall create! If not a note, a hole.
If not an overture, a desecration.

Create, Desecration, Holes, Ifs, Notes, Overture

I don't want people running around saying Gwen Brooks's work is intellectual. That makes people think instantly about obscurity. It shouldn't have to mean that, but it often seems to.

Mean, Obscurity, Running, Saying, Thinking

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

Desire, Fit, Lead, Leadership

Words can do wonderful things. They pound, purr. They can urge, they can wheedle, whip, whine. They can sing, sass, singe. They can churn, check, channelize. They can be a "Hup two three four. " They can forge a fiery army of a hundred languid men.

Army, Forge, Men, Sing, Two

What, what am I to do with all of this life?

Life, This Life

I've always thought of myself as a reporter. When people ask why I don't stop writing, I say, `Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about. ’ With all that's going on, how could I stop?

Disturbing, Looks, People, Stop, World, Writing

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