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
poetry-is
The poetry is myself.
life scent
Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
children simple simplicity
Life for my child is simple, and is good.
music musician music-is
The music is in minors.
people needs want
People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
racism age fifty
It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction ...
fire leaving moments
at a certain moment in social proceedings, I am on FIRE to leave: I have a leaving-FIT.
brother dark rejection
I who have gone the gamut from an almost angry rejection of my dark skin by some of my brainwashed brothers and sisters to a surprised queenhood in the new Black sunam qualified to enter at least the kindergarten of new consciousness now... I have hopes for myself.
people decision insanity
People like definite decisions, / Tidy answers, all the little ravelings / Snipped off, the lint removed, they / Hop happily among their roughs / Calling what they can't clutch insanity / Or saintliness.
men order swim
... sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
race ideas black
I don't like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
fighting firsts fiddle
First fight. Then fiddle.
school would-be inspired
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.
ties wedding-toast bridal-shower
We are each other's magnitude and bond.