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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“One wants a Teller in a time like this.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“Time upholds or overturns
The many, tight, and small concerns.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“Oh Squalor! This sick four-story hulk, this fibre
With fissures everywhere!”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“Children, confine your lights in jellied rules;
Resemble graves; be metaphysical mules;
Learn Lord will not distort nor leave the fray.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“The biggest News I do not dare
Telegraph to the Editor’s chair:
‘They are like people everywhere.’”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)