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When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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
Kansas
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
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My last defense / Is the present tense.
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I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.
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I don't like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
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