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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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To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

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Life is a journey, not a destination.

- Anonymous

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If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

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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.

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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

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