Quotation by Gwendolyn Brooks

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I don't like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917), African American poet. As quoted in I Dream a World, by Brian Lanker (1989).

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