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Annie Allen

Annie Allen
Gwendolyn Brooks

Annie Allen is a book of poetry by Gwendolyn Brooks that was published in 1949, and for which she received the Pulitzer Prize in 1950. This made her the first African American to ever receive a Pulitzer Prize.

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“Exhaust the little moment.
Soon it dies.
And be it gash or gold it will not come
Again in this identical guise.”

Gwendolyn Brooks book Annie Allen

Source: "exhaust the little moment" from Annie Allen (1949)

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