My mother - my stepmother, really, she herself have been what they call an elocutionist. And she was … - Ruby Dee

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My mother - my stepmother, really, she herself have been what they call an elocutionist. And she was the one who first encouraged me to write poetry, because she used to read it to us. And then when I began to write when I was nine years old, my first poem was published in the Amsterdam News. I called it "The Graveyard. "

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