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{SPEAKER name="Sarah Fabio"}
To testify to our pride of stance, and attest our love on this old brick wall,

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just as our forefathers so superbly did,

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through carving and molding on stone, on wood, on iron, bronze, ivory, and gold.

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{SPEAKER name="Margaret Danner"}
Well thank you!

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{SPEAKER name="Brooks B. Robinson"}
Just as our African ancestors did.

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Mrs. Danner, as a writer, as a black writer in the world,
what made you do what you did?

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Uh, made you write the poetry that you've written,
and the other works that you've - instructed and developed?

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{SPEAKER name="Margaret Danner"}
Well - uh, that's difficult to answer. I began writing - I had an uncle who wrote and I had a cousin who's book was published many years ago, he wrote -

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and these men that are in the background of my life, I wanted to do what they did and I think that's what started me writing as a youngster.

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I was chosen a, a poet - class poet - because a poem that I wrote saying that I wanted to be a violin, uh, was, received first prize - the first prize. The teacher said she loved the poem, so she gave me a violin.

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I didn't say that I wanted to own a violin and there was awful screeching around. I said I wanted to be one I wanted life to pluck my strings - which life did - and so that I think I began because there was this atmosphere there in the home.

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{SPEAKER name="Brooks B. Robinson"}
And from there you went on to write numerous works--

{SPEAKER name="Margaret Danner"}
Oh I began to write about boys--

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my goodness, you see, when in my teens - those marvelous boys - and I would write about them with all kinds of very strange imagery that was very bad. I couldn't - one had ebony eyes and you know, uh, yes.

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{SPEAKER name="Brooks B. Robinson"}
Yes. But it all turned out beautifully. Would you like to make anymore comments?


Transcription Notes:
Please transcribe the names of the other speakers. There is one female speaking at the beginning and one male conducting the interview.