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
art healing body
Each body has its art...
writing thinking world
When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
people use minorities
When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.
crush clay language
I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
moments learning-to-love
She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
thinking understanding goes-on
A poem doesn't do everything for you. You are supposed to go on with your thinking. You are supposed to enrich the other person's poem with your extensions, your uniquely personal understandings, thus making the poem serve you.
life gold littles
Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise.
wheat aging
As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
particular
I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
progress world good-health
Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
clumsiness talkers
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
courage brave fearful
It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
teaching bars preference
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
flower book reading
Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.