List of Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes

At A Certain Moment In Social Proceedings, I Am On Fire To Leave: I Have A Leaving-fit.

People Are So In Need, In Need Of Help. People Want So Much That They Do Not Know.

Nothing Could Stop Mississippi.

I've Always Thought Of Myself As A Reporter.

Life For My Child Is Simple, And Is Good.

I Shall Create! If Not A Note, A Hole./if Not An Overture, A Desecration.

I Don't Want People Running Around Saying Gwen Brooks's Work Is Intellectual. That Makes People Think Instantly About Obscurity. It Shouldn't Have To Mean That, But It Often Seems To.

The Music Is In Minors.

Already I Am No Longer Looked At With Lechery Or Love.

Abortions Will Not Let You Forget. You Remember The Children You Got That You Did Not Get.

The Forties And Fifties Were Years Of High Poet-incense; The Language-flowers Were Thickly Sweet. Those Flowers Whined And Begged White Folks To Pick Them, To Find Them Lovable. Then The '60s: Independent Fire!

No Man Can Give Me Any Word But Wait.