Henry Brooks Adams

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    He was born in Alabama.
    He was bred in Illinois.
    He was nothing but a
    Plain black boy.
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “If she belongs to any besides the present, it is to the next world which artists want to see, when paganism will come again and we can give a divinity to every waterfall.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)