Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brookswas an American poet and teacher. She was the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer when she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1950, for her second collection, Annie Allen...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth7 June 1917
CityTopeka, KS
CountryUnited States of America
writing challenges goes-on
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 experiencing the challenge.
writing thinking world
When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
words-of-wisdom african-american be-careful
Be careful what you swallow. Chew!
passion live-in-the-moment littles
Exhaust the little moment / Soon it dies.
army men two
Words can do wonderful things. They pound, purr. They can urge, they can wheedle, whip, whine. They can sing, sass, singe. They can churn, check, channelize. They can be a "Hup two three four." They can forge a fiery army of a hundred languid men.
writing agony delicious
Writing is a delicious agony.
happiness fear shade
And if sun comes / How shall we greet him? / Shall we not dread him, / Shall we not fear him / After so lengthy a / Session with shade?
teaching bars preference
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
white racism black
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
language wonder achieve
Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
cat people reason
One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
clumsiness talkers
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
ties wedding-toast bridal-shower
We are each other's magnitude and bond.
school would-be inspired
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.