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Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.
Gwendolyn Brooks
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Gwendolyn Brooks
Age: 83 †
Born: 1917
Born: June 7
Died: 2000
Died: December 3
Novelist
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Topeka
Kansas
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.
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Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night. You will be right. For that is the hard home-run. Live not for battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song. Live in the along.
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