Gwendolyn Brooks

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Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an African-American poet. Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was born in Topeka, Kansas to Keziah Wims Brooks and David Anderson Brooks. Brooks' mother was a former school teacher who left teaching for marriage and motherhood, and her father, the son of a runaway slave who fought in the Civil War, had given up his ambition to attend medical school to work as a janitor. When Brooks was only six weeks old, her family moved to Chicago, Illin

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5 total works indexed

1. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,405x

2. <scp>CHARMM</scp>: A program for macromolecular energy, minimization, and dynamics calculations

   · 1983 · cited 13,561x

3. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

   · 2016 · cited 11,439x

4. The psychological impact of quarantine and how to reduce it: rapid review of the evidence

   · 2020 · cited 11,279x

5. glmmTMB Balances Speed and Flexibility Among Packages for Zero-inflated Generalized Linear Mixed Modeling

   · 2017 · cited 10,789x

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Quotes

• “It is brave to be involved To be not fearful to be unresolved.”
• “Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise.”
• “We real cool. WeLeft school. WeLurk late. WeStrike straight. WeSing sin. WeThin gin. WeJazz June. WeDie soon.”
• “Art hurts. Art urges voyages—and it is easier to stay at home.”
• “When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.”
• “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.”

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Key facts

Born

Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks , ( 1917-06-07 ) June 7, 1917, Topeka, Kansas , U.S.

Died

December 3, 2000 (2000-12-03) (aged 83), Chicago , Illinois , U.S.

Occupation

Poet

Education

Kennedy-King College

Period

1930–2000

Notable works

A Street in Bronzeville , Annie Allen , Winnie

Notable awards

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1950) , Robert Frost Medal (1989) , National Medal of Arts (1995)

Spouse

Henry Lowington Blakely, Jr. ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1939 ; died 1996 ) ​

Children

2, including Nora Brooks Blakely

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