Famous quotes containing the words elwyn brooks and/or brooks:
“The siren south is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is a hoyden we would not care to miss—a drafty wench, her temperature up and down, full of bold promises and dust in the eye.”
—E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)
“When the Negroes came they were perplexed.
These Negroes looked like men.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)