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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.

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
Learning
Moments
Love

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Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.
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The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the '60s: Independent fire!
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Be careful what you swallow. Chew!
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