Quotes by : Gwendolyn Brooks

Books are meat and medicineand flame and flight and flowersteel, stitch, cloud and clout,and drumbeats....

She was afraid to suggest to him that to most people, nothing "happens." That most people merely live....

Poetry is life distilled.

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were,....

One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.

We real cool. WeLeft school. WeLurk late. WeStrike straight. WeSing sin. WeThin gin. WeJazz June. WeDie....

Say to them,say to the down-keepers,the sun-slappers,the self-soilers,the harmony-hushers,"Even if you....

Surely--But I am very off from that.From surely. From indeed. From the decent arrowthat was my clean....

It is brave to be involved.

We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June.....