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Be careful what you swallow. Chew!

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
Chew
Swallow
Careful

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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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