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
fighting expression taverns
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.
baby pain stress
The civil rights situation is like a pregnancy. It will get worse, I believe, before it gets better. What the usual pregnancy comes to is a decent baby. That is what we all hope will be the end product of this stress. It is customary, at the end of a pregnancy, to have for your pains a decent baby.
night slappers ready
Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
being-yourself important poet
Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
love inspirational wedding
We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.
writing agony delicious
Writing is a delicious agony.
love sweet men
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.
book reading important
Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.
leadership desire fit
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
life noise blooming
This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
flower special different
We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
black minorities groups
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.
believe differences doubt
I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.
happiness success perseverance
I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.