Brooks Quote by John Hodgman

“Most of us, out of a politeness made up of faint curiosity and profound resignation, go out to meet the smiling stranger with a…

— James Thurber

E.B. White's essays are the best things I've read about Maine - especially the one in which he's not sure if he can go…

— Nicholson Baker

“Do you know how long it takes to charm people from Maine? They're uptight white people coated with a hard exterior made from other…

— Joel Stein

“he hated the white men who interfered with the manly pursuits of throat-cutting, kidnapping, slave-dealing, and fire-raising,”

— Jose Conrad

I stumbled upon Charles White purely by chance while looking through a book 'Great Negroes, Past and Present' in the library at Forty-Ninth Street…

— Kerry James Marshall

I was reading Carl Sandburg and Gwendolyn Brooks, and I'm still very, very deeply moved by Gwendolyn Brooks's life and her work.

— Sandra Cisneros

“At lilac evening I walked with every muscle aching among the lights of 27th and Welton in the Denver colored section, wishing I were…

— Jack Kerouac

“I grew silent and reserved as the nature of the world in which I lived became plain and undeniable; the bleakness of the future…

— Richard Wright

“I know I grew up in the time when a young man in a baggy suit and slicked-down hair stood spraddle-legged in the crossroads…

— Rick Bragg

“All the authors I studied, all the historical figures, with the exception of George Washington Carver, and all those figures I looked upon as…

— Walter Dean Myers

“successful companies in real estate, meeting with no other than the CEO. His employees didn’t know the true Jett. No one did. If they…

— J.C. Reed

“Anna remembered her fifth grade teacher, Mr. White, telling her that hatred wasn't the worst of emotions. If one hated, one still cared. Indifference…

— Nevada Barr