All Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
- 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… Atmosphere
- Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home. African American
- I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. Funny
- Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise. Dies
- We are each other's magnitude and bond. Bond
- When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else. Less
- 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. Anybody
- Poetry is life distilled. Distilled
- Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words. Achieve
- 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… All
- It is brave to be involved Brave
- As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you. Aging
- With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker. Cracker
- I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy. All
- Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars. Bars
- I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and… Been
- Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get. Abortion
- I've always thought of myself as a reporter. When people ask why I don't stop writing, I say, `Look at what's happening in this world.… All
- 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… Almost Angry
- 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… All