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
weed track magic
There are no magics or elves / Or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must / Wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
fire leaving moments
at a certain moment in social proceedings, I am on FIRE to leave: I have a leaving-FIT.
mississippi
Nothing could stop Mississippi.
lechery
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
reporters
I've always thought of myself as a reporter.
grief fuel fool
beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
grief mind all-time
I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
live-in-the-moment lasts defense
My last defense / Is the present tense.
poetry attention lines
I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don't pay attention 'cause it probably has floated into somebody else's head.
color two white
When 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.
racism age fifty
It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction ...
music musician music-is
The music is in minors.
happening
Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about. With all that's going on, how could I stop?