Famous quotes containing the words brooks and/or directed:
“He was born in Alabama.
He was bred in Illinois.
He was nothing but a
Plain black boy.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet there has not been, in all history, another age ... when so much sheer mental energy was directed toward creating a fairer social order.”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)