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| A Street in Bronzeville | |
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| kitchenette building | |
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| the mother | |
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| southeast corner | |
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| hunchback girl: she thinks of heaven | |
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| a song in the front yard | |
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| the ballad of chocolate Mabbie | |
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| the preacher: ruminates behind the sermon | |
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| Sadie and Maud | |
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| the independent man | |
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| of De Witt Williams on his way to Lincoln Cemetery | |
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| the vacant lot | |
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| The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith | |
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| Negro Hero | |
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| gay chaps at the bar | |
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| still do I keep my look, my identity ... | |
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| my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell | |
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| looking | |
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| piano after war | |
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| mentors | |
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| the white troops had their orders but the Negroes looked like men | |
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| firstly inclined to take what it is told | |
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| "God works in a mysterious way" | |
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| love note I: surely | |
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| love note II: flags | |
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| the progress | |
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| Notes from the Childhood and the Girlhood | |
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| Clogged and soft and sloppy eyes | |
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| Chicken, she chided early, should not wait | |
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| After the baths and bowel-work, he was dead | |
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| Late Annie in her bower lay | |
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| The duck fats rot in the roasting pan | |
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| "Do not be afraid of no" | |
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| But can see better there, and laughing there | |
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| Think of sweet and chocolate | |
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| You need the untranslatable ice to watch | |
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| The Certainty we two shall meet by God | |
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| Oh mother, mother, where is happiness | |
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| The Womanhood | |
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| People who have no children can be hard | |
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| What shall I give my children? who are poor | |
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| And shall I prime my children, pray, to pray? | |
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| First fight. Then fiddle. Ply the slipping string | |
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| When my dears die, the festival-colored brightness | |
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| Life for my child is simple, and is good | |
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| Sweet Sally took a cardboard box | |
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| A light and diplomatic bird | |
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| Carried her unprotesting out the door | |
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| They get to Benvenuti's. There are booths | |
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| The dry brown coughing beneath their feet | |
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| And if sun comes | |
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| One wants a Teller in a time like this | |
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| People protest in sprawling lightless ways | |
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| Men of careful turns, haters of forks in the road | |
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| In Honor of David Anderson Brooks, My Father | |
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| My Little 'Bout-town Gal | |
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| Strong Men, Riding Horses | |
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| The Bean Eaters | |
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| We Real Cool | |
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| Old Mary | |
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| A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi, Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon | |
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| The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till | |
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| Mrs. Small | |
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| Jessie Mitchell's Mother | |
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| The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock | |
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| The Lovers of the Poor | |
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| A Sunset of the City | |
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| A Man of the Middle Class | |
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| The Crazy Woman | |
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| Bronzeville Man with a Belt in the Back | |
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| A Lovely Love | |
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| A Penitent Considers Another Coming of Mary | |
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| Bronzeville Woman in a Red Hat | |
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| In Emanuel's Nightmare: Another Coming of Christ | |
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| The Ballad of Rudolph Reed | |
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| Riders to the Blood-red Wrath | |
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| The Empty Woman | |
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| To Be in Love | |
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| Of Robert Frost | |
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| Langston Hughes | |
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| A Catch of Shy Fish | |
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| garbageman: the man with the orderly mind | |
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| sick man looks at flowers | |
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| old people working (garden, car) | |
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| weaponed woman | |
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| old tennis player | |
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| a surrealist and Omega | |
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| Spaulding and Francois | |
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| Big Bessie throws ber son into the street | |
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| About Gwendolyn Brooks | |