Gwendolyn Brooks Middle

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

    “We are things of dry hours and the involuntary plan,
    Grayed in, and gray. “Dream” makes a giddy sound, not strong
    Like “rent,” “feeding a wife,” “satisfying a man.””
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “... Live!/and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes!
    Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses!”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)