When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done. - Gwendolyn Brooks

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When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.

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About Gwendolyn Brooks

Gwendolyn Brooks (7 June 1917 – 3 December 2000) was an American poet. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Literature for her book of poems Annie Allen.

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Alternative Names: Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
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Her creamy child kissed by the black maid! square on the mouth!
World yelled, world writhed, world turned to light and rolled
Into her kitchen, nearly knocked her down.
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