Gwendolyn Brooks Middle

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    “Think of sweet and chocolate,
    Left to folly or to fate,
    Whom the higher gods forgot,
    Whom the lower gods berate;
    Physical and underfed
    Fancying on the featherbed ...”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “The worthy poor. The very very worthy
    And beautiful poor. Perhaps just not too swarthy?
    Perhaps just not too dirty nor too dim
    Nor—passionate.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “Real socialism is inside man. It wasn’t born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can’t say it is finished.”
    —Dario Fo (b. 1926)