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Gwendolyn Brooks

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


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Quote Left God's Son went home. Among us it is whispered He cried the tears of men. Feeling, in fact, We have no need of peace. Quote Right
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Quote Left She went in there to muse on being rid Of relative beneath the coffin lid. No one was by. She stuck her tongue out; slid. Quote Right
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Quote Left He was born in Alabama. He was bred in Illinois. He was nothing but a Plain black boy. Quote Right
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Quote Left ... is merry glory. Is saltatory. Yet he grips his right of twisting free. Quote Right
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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. Quote Right
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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry