Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an African-American poet. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1950 and was appointed Poet Laureate of Illinois in 1968 and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1985.
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“Oh mother, mother, where is happiness?
They took my lover’s tallness off to war.
Left me lamenting.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“Mrs. Small went to the kitchen for her pocketbook
And came back to the living room with a peculiar look
And the coffee pot.
Pocketbook. Pot.
Pot. Pocketbook.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“Had she been worth the blood, the cramped cries, the little stuttering bravado,
The gradual dulling of those Negro eyes,
The sudden, overwhelming little-boyness in that barn?”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“He zigzagged.
He was a knotted hiss.
He was an insane hash
Of rebellious small strengths”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“If prejudice is native and it is you
Will find it ineradicable....”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)