Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes

Say to them,say to the down-keepers,the sun-slappers,the self-soilers,the harmony-hushers,"Even if y...

One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.

We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz Ju...

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies.And be it gash or gold it will not comeAgain in this identic...

Writing is a delicious agony.

Books are meat and medicineand flame and flight and flowersteel, stitch, cloud and clout,and drumbea...

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it wer...

It is brave to be involved.

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

Poetry is life distilled.

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes...

my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell I hold my honey and I store my bread In little jars a...

Live not for Battles Won.Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.

She was afraid to suggest to him that to most people, nothing "happens." That most people merely liv...

We real cool. WeLeft school. WeLurk late. WeStrike straight. WeSing sin. WeThin gin. WeJazz June. We...

Surely--But I am very off from that.From surely. From indeed. From the decent arrowthat was my clean...