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Gwendolyn Brooks

"Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise."

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"Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise."

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"Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity."

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"Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen."

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"The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal."

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"We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part."

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"Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current."

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"I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold."

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"If I never sang on a record again I can still look at my walls. They are covered floor to ceiling with gold and platinum records from all over the world."

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"You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful."

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"I don't like to have to pan for gold when I read."

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"Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in gold as medicine."

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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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"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."
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"I've always thought of myself as a reporter."
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"Poetry is life distilled."
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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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"I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker."
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"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?"
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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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"Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home."
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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."
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