“ 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. Gwendolyn Brooks
“ 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 an… Gwendolyn Brooks
“ Books are meat and medicineand flame and flight and flowersteel, stitch, cloud and clout,and drumbeats on the air. Gwendolyn Brooks
“ My dreams, my works, must wait till after hell I hold my honey and I store my bread In little jars and cabinets of my will. I label clearly, and each latch and lid I bid, Be firm till I return from he… Gwendolyn Brooks
“ Say to them,say to the down-keepers,the sun-slappers,the self-soilers,the harmony-hushers,"Even if you are not ready for dayit cannot always be night."You will be right.For that is the hard home-run.L… Gwendolyn Brooks
“ We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon. Gwendolyn Brooks
“ Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies.And be it gash or gold it will not comeAgain in this identical disguise. Gwendolyn Brooks
“ 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 peo… Gwendolyn Brooks
“ Surely--But I am very off from that.From surely. From indeed. From the decent arrowthat was my clean naivete and my faith.This morning, men deliver wounds and death.They will deliver death and wounds… Gwendolyn Brooks
