Gwendolyn Brooks Middle

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    “Build with lithe love. With love like lion-eyes.
    With love like morningrise.
    With love like black, our black—
    luminously indiscreet;
    complete; continuous.””
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “When the Negroes came they were perplexed.
    These Negroes looked like men.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “In the middle of the night, as indeed each time that we lay on the shore of a lake, we heard the voice of the loon, loud and distinct, from far over the lake. It is a very wild sound, quite in keeping with the place and the circumstances of the traveler, and very unlike the voice of a bird. I could lie awake for hours listening to it, it is so thrilling.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)