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Brief author info: Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) American writer, poet and novelist known for her strong voice and social observation; much of work centers around the African American experience in America; as such, considered to have foreshadowed later African American writers' works (such as Imamu Amiri Baraka's); won Pulitzer Prize for Annie Allen, her second book of poems; well known for her novel Maud Martha.

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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man's shirt on its morning run.

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Poetry is life distilled.

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Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

- Albert Einstein

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I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

- Jimi Hendrix

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Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature.

- Marilyn Monroe

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It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

- Lou Holtz

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You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

- Mae West

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