Quotes Gwendolyn Brooks

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just ...

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at h...

Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hisp...

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or g...

First fight. Then fiddle....

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker....

I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been publish...

I've always thought of myself as a reporter....

Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's so...

Poetry is life distilled....

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders lang...

We are each other's magnitude and bond....

What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression re...

When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physic...

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to...

Poetry is life distilled. ...