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Books are meat and medicineand flame and flight and flowersteel, stitch, cloud and clout,and drumbeats on the air.

Books are meat and medicineand flame and flight and flowersteel, stitch, cloud and clout,and drumbeats on the air.
– Gwendolyn Brooks

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