Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an African-American poet. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1950 and was appointed Poet Laureate of Illinois in 1968 and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1985.
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“Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
My daughters and sons have put me away with marbles and dolls,
Are gone from the house.
My husband and lovers are pleasant or somewhat polite
And night is night.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“... dusky folk, so clamorous!
So colorfully incorrect,
So amorous,
So flatly brave!”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“Time upholds or overturns
The many, tight, and small concerns.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“What shall I give my children? who are poor,
Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land,
Who are my sweetest lepers....”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“The music is in minors.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)