Brooks

Famous quotes containing the word brooks:

    Nothing and nothing could stop Mississippi.
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    There is spiritual laughter
    Too hushed to be gay, too high: the happiness
    Of angels.
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    And true, they are hurling spittle, rock,
    Garbage and fruit in Little Rock.
    And I saw coiling storm a-writhe
    On bright madonnas. And a scythe
    Of men harassing brownish girls.
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)