Gwendolyn Brooks Middle

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

    “The biggest News I do not dare
    Telegraph to the Editor’s chair:
    “They are like people everywhere.””
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “We want nights
    Of vague adventure, lips lax wet and warm,
    Bees in the stomach, sweat across the brow. Now.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “A normal adolescent is so restless and twitchy and awkward that he can mange to injure his knee—not playing soccer, not playing football—but by falling off his chair in the middle of French class.”
    —Judith Viorst (20th century)