Brooks

Famous quotes containing the word brooks:

“Some day the war will end, but, oh, I knew
When he went walking grandly out that door
That my sweet love would have to be untrue.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

“There they are.
Thirty at the corner.
Black raw, ready.
Sores in the city
that do not want to heal.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

“When the Negroes came they were perplexed.
These Negroes looked like men.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)