are each other’s business. We are each other’s magnitude and bond.” They repeated the lines two more times, then broke apart. Bitter’s sobs had stilled into a tearful silence, and her friends were holding her hands. She couldn’t muster up the words to thank the Assata kids, but they gave her small smiles and nods and everyone started walking again. “Gwendolyn Brooks,” Miss Virtue said to Ube as they moved forward. “You still speak those lines. She has been dead for many decades.” “Her words will never die,” he replied. “They remind us that we are all in service to one another, we are not
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