Quote by: Gwendolyn Brooks

What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.


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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