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My grandmothers are full of memories/ Smelling of soap and onions and wet clay/ With veins rolling roughly over quick hands/ They have many clean words to say,/ My grandmothers were strong. Margaret Walker (1915 - ____) US writer, educator From Lineage; quoted in The Black Woman's Gumbo Ya-Ya, by Terri L. Jewell, 1993. Dr. Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander		Tuesday Feb 17, 2026
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Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone; all leave it Alone. Thomas de Quincey

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	Thomas de Quincey
	Thomas de Quincey (August 15, 1785 - December 8, 1859) was an English author and intellectual, best known for his book Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822). Read More

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Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone; all leave it Alone.