“So lovely a name it is that I should like to have made it myself, but I…” — Gwendolyn B. Bennett

“So lovely a name it is that I should like to have made it myself, but I didn't.”

Admiring a phrase while cheerfully acknowledging that someone else coined it · Column, The Ebony Flute, August 1926

About Gwendolyn B. Bennett

8 July 1902–30 May 1981

Gwendolyn B. Bennett was a radiant force in American literature and art, a woman whose life wove together the threads of creativity, resilience, and quiet revolution during one of the most electrifying cultural awakenings in the nation's history. Born on July 8, 1902, in Giddings, Texas, and passing away on May 30…

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