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Gwendolyn Brooks [1917-2000] American

Rank: 101
Poet

Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was an American poet, author, and teacher. She was the recipient of many awards for her work and influence; including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on May 1, 1950, making her the first African American woman to receive that award.

Art, Home, Love, Poetry

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When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.		101
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?		102
We are each other's magnitude and bond.		103
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.		104
Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.	Art, Home	105
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.	Love	106
Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.		107
Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise.		108
I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.		109
I've always thought of myself as a reporter.		110
Poetry is life distilled.	Poetry	111
First fight. Then fiddle.		112
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.		113
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.		114
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.		115

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