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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“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)
“Time upholds or overturns
The many, tight, and small concerns.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“‘Now bury your bird,’ the wind it bawled,
‘And bury him down and down
Who had to put his trust in one
So light-eyed and so brown....’”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“I think it must be lonely to be God.
Nobody loves a master. No.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“Forgotten and stinking they stick in the can.
And the vase breath’s better and all, and all.
And so for the end of our life to a man,
Just over, just over and all.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)