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“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.”

Gwendolyn Brooks

Report From Part One (1972)

“Say to them,
say to the down-keepers,
the sun-slappers,
the self-soilers,
the harmony-hushers,
"even if you are not ready for day
it cannot always be night."”

Gwendolyn Brooks

You will be right.
Speech to the Young : Speech to the Progress-Toward

“He is not there but
You know you are tasting together
The winter, or a light spring weather.
His hand to take your hand is
overmuch.
Too much too bear.”

Gwendolyn Brooks

"To Be In Love"

“The good man.
He is still enhancer, renouncer.
In the time of detachment,
in the time of the vivid heather and affectionate evil,
in the time of oral
grave grave legalities of hate - all real
walks our prime registered reproach and seal.
Our successful moral.
The good man.”

Gwendolyn Brooks

The Good Man

“It is a real chill out,
The genuine thing.
I am not deceived, I do not think it is still summer
Because sun stays and birds continue to sing.”

Gwendolyn Brooks

A Sunset of the City

“Is earnest enough, may earnest attract or lead to light;
Is light enough, if hands in clumsy frenzy, flimsy whimsically, enlist;
Is light enough when this bewilderment crying against the dark shuts down the shades?
Dilute confusion. Find and explode our mist.”

Gwendolyn Brooks

"garbageman: the man with the orderly mind"

“When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.”

Gwendolyn Brooks

"An Interview with Gwendolyn Brooks", Contemporary Literature 11:1 (Winter 1970)

“Abortions will not let you forget.
You remember the children you got that you did not get,
The damp small pulps with a little or with no hair,
The singers and workers that never handled the air.
You will never neglect or beat
Them, or silence or buy with a sweet.
You will never wind up the sucking-thumb
Or scuttle off ghosts that come.”

Gwendolyn Brooks

The Mother (1945)

“Somebody muffed it?? Somebody wanted to joke.”

Gwendolyn Brooks

A Sunset of the City

“I shall not sing a May song.
A May song should be gay.
I'll wait until November
And sing a song of gray.”

Gwendolyn Brooks

"The Crazy Woman"

“Coherent
Counsel! Good man.
Require of us our terribly excluded blue.
Constrain, repair a ripped, revolted land.
Put hand in hand land over.
Reprove
the abler droughts and manias of the day
and a felicity entreat.
Love.
Complete
your pledges, reinforce your aides, renew
stance, testament.”

Gwendolyn Brooks

The Good Man

“Nary a grin grinned Rudolph Reed,
Nary a curse cursed he,
But moved in his House. With his dark little wife,
And his dark little children three.”

Gwendolyn Brooks

The Ballad of Rudolph Reed

“Already you're on Page 8.”

Gwendolyn Brooks

"Thinking of Elizabeth Steinberg"