Gwendolyn Brooks Middle

Famous quotes containing the words gwendolyn brooks, brooks and/or middle:

    “Rise.
    Let us combine. There are no magics or elves
    Or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must
    Wizard a track through our own screaming weed.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “Shut your rhetorics in a box;
    Pack compunction and go home.
    Skeleton, settle, down in bed.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “Don’t you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you’ll never be a dominant force in the world? You’ll never be a convincing technocrat or middle manager. Because people will know. She’s in there sitting down.”
    —Don Delillo (b. 1926)