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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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Wisdom Quote

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

- Helen Keller

Marriage Quote

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

- Marilyn Monroe

Love Quote

Its better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what your not.

- Marilyn Monroe

Life Quote

Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.

- Publilius Syrus

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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

- Oscar Wilde

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