Quotes by Gwendolyn Brooks

About Gwendolyn Brooks:

Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was an American poet and teacher. She was the first black person (the term she preferred to African-American) to win a Pulitzer prize when she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1950 for her second collection, Annie Allen.
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Surely--But I am very off from that. From surely. From indeed. From the decent arrow that was my clean naivete and my faith. This morning, men deliver wounds and death. They will deliver death and wounds tomorrow. And I doubt all. You. Or a violet.

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And if sun comes How shall we greet him? Shall we not dread him, Shall we not fear him After so lengthy a Session with shade? Though we have wept for him, Though we have prayed All through the night-years— What if we wake one shimmering morning to ...

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

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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical disguise.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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

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She was afraid to suggest to him that to most people, nothing "happens." That most people merely live from day to day until they die. That, after he had been dead a year, doubtless fewer than five people would think of him oftener than once a year. T...

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

Gwendolyn Brooks

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

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When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.

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We are each other's magnitude and bond.

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I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.

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I've always thought of myself as a reporter.

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Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about. With all that's going on, how could I stop?

Gwendolyn Brooks

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

Gwendolyn Brooks

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise.

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When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

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Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

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Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

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Sit down. Inhale. Exhale. The gun will wait. The lake will wait. The tall gall in the small seductive vial will wait will wait: will wait a week: will wait through April. You do not have to die this certain day. Death will abide, will pamper your pos...

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Author Bio

  • NameGwendolyn Brooks
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornJune 7, 1917
  • DiedDecember 3, 2000
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPoet; Writer
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; National Medal Of Arts; Pulitzer Prize For Poetry; National Women's Hall Of Fame