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Gil Scott-Heron sings into a microphone onstage before a large crowd, circa 1974, wearing a patterned shirt. Gil Scott-Heron, smiling in a black cap and T-shirt, clasps hands with rapper Common, who wears a green shirt, backstage at Central Park SummerStage in New York.
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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
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4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul
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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:
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Gil Scott-Heron, c. 1974
American poet and musician Gil Scott-Heron, known for such socially conscious spoken-word...
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Gil Scott-Heron (left) greeting rapper Common at a concert at Central Park SummerStage...
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