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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Famous quotes by gwendolyn brooks:
“Is light enough when this bewilderment crying against the dark shuts down the shades?
Dilute confusion. Find and explode our mist.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“The little lifting helplessness, the queer
Whimper-whine; whose unridiculous
Lost softness softly makes a trap for us.
And makes a curse.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“... able to
Mend measles, nag noses, blast blisters
And all day waste wordful girls
And war-boys, and all day
Say ‘Oh God!’”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“If prejudice is native and it is you
Will find it ineradicable....”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“Echoes are dull and the body accepts no touch
Except its pain. Mind is a little isle.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)