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When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.

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
Often
Meet
Black
Beings
Two
Room
Chiefly
Today
Color
Encounter
Human
Rooms
Colors
Humans
Ready
Encounters
Sometimes
Understanding
Racism
White
Awareness

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