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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.

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
Think
Loneliness
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Master
Lonely
God
Loves
Masters
Nobody
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