Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was an African-American poet.
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“Poetry is life distilled.”
Gwendolyn Brooks
“A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.”
“we are each other's magnitude and bond.”
“Be careful what you swallow. Chew!”
“Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise.”
“As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you”
“When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.”
“I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.”
“Each body has its art…”
“When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.”