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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
Book
Important
Swallow
Lines
Reading
Read
Everything

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My last defense / Is the present tense.
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