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I like the concentration, the crush I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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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I who have gone the gamut from an almost angry rejection of my dark skin by some of my brainwashed brothers and sisters to a surprised queenhood in the new Black sunam qualified to enter at least the kindergarten of new consciousness now... I have hopes for myself.
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at a certain moment in social proceedings, I am on FIRE to leave: I have a leaving-FIT.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction.
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