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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.

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
Blooming
Urgency
Noise
Live
Life
Whirlwind

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