The poetry is myself.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSThe poetry is myself.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSShe was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWhen white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWhen you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSLive not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSPeople are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSAlready I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSA 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 BROOKSAs you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSLife must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSIt is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI don’t like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS