Quotes by : Gwendolyn Brooks

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

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.

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

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

Live not for Battles Won.Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.

Writing is a delicious agony.

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.....