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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“‘Now bury your bird,’ the wind it bawled,
‘And bury him down and down
Who had to put his trust in one
So light-eyed and so brown....’”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“Cold an old predicament of the breath:
Adroit, the shapely prefaces complete,
Accept the university of death.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“If prejudice is native and it is you
Will find it ineradicable....”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“My Father, it is surely a blue place
And straight. Right. Regular.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“One wants a Teller in a time like this.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)