Author: Gwendolyn Brooks

Quotes

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.

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

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

- Gwendolyn Brooks

Poetry is life distilled.

Poetry is life distilled.

- Gwendolyn Brooks

What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.

What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.

- Gwendolyn Brooks

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