Quotes by : Gwendolyn Brooks

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

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

When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes,....

my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell I hold my honey and I store my bread In little jars and....

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

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

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.

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