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Quotation by Gwendolyn Brooks
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Each body has its art, its precious prescribed
Pose, that even in passion's droll contortions, waltzes,
Or push of pain or when a grief has stabbed,
Or hatred hacked is its, and nothing else's.
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Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917), U.S. poet. "Still do I keep my look, my identity . . ....."
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