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Gwendolyn Brooks

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Pulitzer Prize-winning African-American woman poet.. African-American poet; 30th US Poet Laureate

Poems are below...

Top 5 Poems

1	The Crazy Woman
2	We Real Cool
3	The Mother
4	The Lovers of the Poor
5	To Be In Love

All Poems

A Sunset of the City

My Dreams My Works Must Wait Till After Hell

One Wants A Teller In A Time Like This

The Ballad of Rudolph Reed

The Crazy Woman

The Independent Man

The Lovers of the Poor

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The Intersection of Race and Gender in Poetry: A Look at the Works of These 10 Black Women Poets

Quotes

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Quote Left "Men there were and men there be But never men so many Chief enough to marry me," Thought the proud late Annie.
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Quote Left A dryness is upon the house My father loved and tended.
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Quote Left She kisses her killed boy. And she is sorry. Chaos in windy grays through a red prairie.
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Quote Left Nobody is saying that these people do not ultimately cease to be. And Sometimes their passings are even more painful than ours....
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Quote Left I swear to keep the dead upon my mind,/Disdain for all time to be overglad./Among spring flowers, under summer trees./By chilling autumn water...
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