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Gwendolyn Brooks: We real cool....

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We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.

Source: We ReaI CooI, The Bean Eaters, 1960.
-- Gwendolyn Brooks, (Jun 7 1917-2000), US poet; Her works deal with the everyday life of urban blacks; the first black poet to win the Pulitzer Prize.

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