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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“Swing low swing low sweet sweet chariot.
Nothing but a plain black boy.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“My Tondeleyo, my black blonde
Will not be homing soon.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“‘Men there were and men there be
But never men so many
Chief enough to marry me,’
Thought the proud late Annie.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“The music is in minors.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“Don’t forget the Dance Halls
Warwick and Savoy,
Where he picked his women, where
He drank his liquid joy.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)