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A Quote by Gwendolyn Brooks on death, jazz, and schools

We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - 2000)
Source: "We ReaI CooI," The Bean Eaters, 1960.
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RoxY_D said

I can just imagine these young boys in baggy pants with smokes in their pockets lurking slinking and being the number one thing on all the young girls' minds.

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