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Quote by Gwendolyn Brooks

“Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.”

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Gwendolyn Brooks was a prominent American poet whose work delved into the African American experience. Born on June 7, 1917, in Topeka, Kansas, she spent much of her life in Chicago, Illinois. Brooks' poetry frequently depicted the struggles and victories of the African American community, and she became the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1950 for her collection 'Annie Allen'. She passed away on December 3, 2000. more

“We all suffer alone in the real world. True empathy's impossible. But if a piece of fiction can alow us imaginatively to identify with a character's pain, we might then also more easily conceive of others identifying with their own. This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside. It might just be that simple.”

Ifs World Real Character Might Pain Suffering Simple Fiction Pieces Impossible Empathy Real World Identifying

Author:David Foster Wallace

“I would feel infinitely more comfortable in your presence if you would agree to treat gravity as a law, rather than one of a number of suggested options.”

Ifs Feels Law Numbers Comfortable Treats Agree Gravity Your Presence Sandman

Author:Neil Gaiman

“The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not.”

People Doe States Anarchy Heresy

Author:Joseph Sobran

“Charitably... I think... sometimes, perhaps, one must change or die. And, in the end, there were, perhaps, limits to how much he could let himself change.”

Thinking Ends Sometimes Dies Change Limits

Author:Neil Gaiman

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