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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.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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Gwendolyn Brooks
Age: 83 †
Born: 1917
Born: June 7
Died: 2000
Died: December 3
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Topeka
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Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
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What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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