ART IV: Remembering Gwendolyn Brooks
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ART IV: Remembering Gwendolyn Brooks

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 8, 20262 min
  • One speaker
  • Arts & culture

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does not escape the daily windstorms, fires, gun blast,

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of the rulers and their gatekeepers.

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This is Haki Marabuti reading poems from Poetry Magazine April, 2023. Art for remembering Gwendolyn Brooks, for David J. Steiner, artist, and filmmaker, December 26, 2016. Art has his own language, name, and questions.

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Has clear talk, justice, and motivation. Art does not create itself. does not escape the daily windstorms, fires, gun blast, ignorant mumblings, or cruel misrepresentations

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of the rulers and their gatekeepers. Artists and their art are liberated souls, forever sprinting and searching in the world. They do not see borders, walls, or can't do possibilities.

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