Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brookswas an American poet and teacher. She was the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer when she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1950, for her second collection, Annie Allen...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth7 June 1917
CityTopeka, KS
CountryUnited States of America
Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
this-life
What, what am I to do with all of this life?
song battle slappers
Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
real school june
We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
justice brave social-justice
It is brave to be involved
jewels pearls milk
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
thinking years people
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. That there might even come a year when no one on earth would think of him at all.
art world materials
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
lechery
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
running song home
Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, "Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night." You will be right. For that is the hard home-run. Live not for battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song. Live in the along.
reporters
I've always thought of myself as a reporter.
holes notes ifs
I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration.
love-is hands wells
To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
children land giving
What shall I give my children? who are poor, / Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land ...